 Welcome to the ITU studio in Geneva for GSR 18 where I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Neil Sahota Who is IBM master inventor Neil. Thanks for joining us in the studio. Yeah, my pleasure. Thanks for having me now I'd like to talk a little bit about you've been part of the the panels session this morning on AI and AOT perhaps we could talk a little bit about why is this global dialogue on AI and IOT important Well, we're in a time of great change not to sound cliche But there's a lot of rapid advancements happening you know, if you really think about it people are wondering what's what's going to happen. What does this mean and Right now it's really hard for us to define what that feature is going to look like if you think back ten years ago Nobody really could have envisioned ride-sharing something like uber right and that was a whole new industry spawned from the platform of the smartphone So when we talk about today people are naturally concerned about What's gonna this mean for the future in terms of you know relationships between people in machines, maybe machines taking jobs the education workforces what what's going to happen and Rather than be reactionary about it I think I'm trying to dialogue now having some serious discussions to say what is AI IOT cyber security going to mean What do we have to do about it? Not just from like a purely you know individual country regulatory type of thing But more on a global scale, you know with some common practices ethics morals or whatever it might be Is the right conversation to have now otherwise? We're gonna become we're gonna wait for something wrong to happen and then try and react to it And what were the some of the key takeaways from today's panel discussion? Well, I think the one of the consensus was that no one can really predict what the future is going to be like not even ten years from now, but There's some level of regulation is necessary and there's going to have to be some sort of balance on What what that is we don't want to under-regulate We don't want to over-regulate because that also in my control curtail some of the opportunities out there for the example If you over-regulate we may prevent the ability for advancements in medicine and saving lives Whereas we under-regulate we might have some wild accidents with self-driving cars that will cost lives So try to understand what that right balance is going to be key Understanding that also that we all have a different perspective on things So how do we bring all these diverse few points together and come up with? Common agreement and what's your perspective as IBM master inventor? Are you there at the cutting edge of the pointy end of the of the pencil there? What what for you is is is that the key Goal at the key I suppose that the key issues that we should be thinking about well We live in the digital age now and you know country boundaries Don't really matter when it comes to the flow of data and use of technology I think what's key for us is to have a global discussion with you know Organizations like the United Nations and the ITU the forefront driving that to help us come to some sort of common understanding Common regulations rules laws where it might be then apply across the world you talked a little bit about Issues when there's under-regulation. What about in terms of the the relationship between AI IOT and Cybersecurity, what about the the things that might be affecting us that we can't Can't predict or can't do too much about or perhaps that we can defend ourselves So then that's a great question because we generate I think over 10 petabytes of data a day Which is more than all the books or libraries in all the world All that data is flowing around IOT in particular now generating data for machine consumption not people consumption IOT AI All reliant on trustworthy data right because at some level there's some recommendations or in some case low impact It's just being made How do we know that what's being done is is right and we're getting good data Right, how do we know that somebody's not trying to hack right, which why cyber security plays a key role? So I think from from that perspective really have to try and manage this new ecosystem that we're building with this technology And is that the best way to defend ourselves against? But possible cyber attack it might be I think the the power of AI IOT could be that We'd actually do more rigorous protection testing look for vulnerabilities before we release something as well as you know, the we've seen from AI is Because it thinks differently Depending on how you train it it might be able to detect or foresee threats or vulnerabilities that we haven't discovered yet So it could be a real tool for good What about the most exciting developments? What what what should we be looking forward to? well Hopefully it's it's not worrying about just like cyber security threats and a lot of stuff But actually using these technologies for more proct productivity Someone once said that machines are about productivity people are about creativity. So my hope is that the AI you know AI IOT picks up some of the more Administrative type of work freeing us up for more value add type of thing So deeper thought and deeper exploration like in terms of like cancer research or you know trying to find you know The the next big thing maybe it's in space and finding alien life But basically trying to free us for more of the mundane tasks for our work To do the more high-value add types of tasks And is it true to say that the majority of our interactions with AI will be Voice in the future will be a lot of people are putting in all of their Obviously typing in requests now into Google and that kind of stuff But everything is everything going towards voice now right now that that is this the trend that one of the powers with AI is You should have the ability to have a conversation with the machine It's not about keywords or anything like that But it's just like you and me talking right now and I think that's it's more natural for us And I think that's what most people are actually looking for so might say that that's that'd be awesome But one day we might have telepathic interfaces You can obviously read my mind Coming to the end of the interview, but thank you very much indeed for being with us in the studio today And we look forward to catching up with you soon. I probably next time we won't even have to talk So everybody could just just be able to understand exactly what we're saying is by Tapping in I'll make the goal for the next time. Thank you Thanks very much indeed. My pleasure. That's great. And thanks very much for joining us And please check out our other videos on the ITU YouTube channel. Thank you