Compassionate Intelligence should be inculcated in AI, says a Nobel laureate

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gripping nearly every walk of life across the globe today, promoting nations to gather in Paris recently to discuss important issues surrounding AI, a Nobel laureate from India, Kailash Satyarthi, has advised that AI should in it inculcate compassionate intelligence to make itself socially responsible and morally accountable.

Satyarthi is an Indian social reformer whose campaign against child labour and advocacy of universal right to education won him the Nobel Prize for Peace along with Malala Yousafzai in 2014. He made the statement in the Indian city of Benaras on the sidelines of a literary fest a few days after India co-chaired an AI global summit in Paris.

Satyarthi also maintained that AI has its limitation and the world needs to understand it. “The AI generates ideas based on data available on social media platforms and the internet. So, AI cannot provide an unbiased perspective. To ensure AI is morally accountable and socially responsible in solving problems, compassion training should be given to the engineers who program it,” Satyarthi advised.

While most nations have agreed on the resolutions of the Paris summit, United States and Britain did not, giving their own reasons.