Speaking with BBC’s Panorama, a long-running investigative program with a focus on current affairs, the president of Microsoft claimed that George Orwell’s 1984 “could come to pass in 2024” if legislators fail to build protective systems against artificial intelligence, and that government would find it “difficult to catch up” as the level of technology accelerates.
Brad Smith, who joined Microsoft in 1993 and became the company’s president and chief legal officer in 2015, said, “If we don’t enact the laws that will protect the public in the future, we are going to find the technology racing ahead, and it’s going to be very difficult to catch up.”
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