Jeetu Patel talks about the growth and dangers of AI

KTVU had a rare opportunity for a one-on-one interview with one of the most powerful executives in Silicon Valley, G2 Patel, president and chief product officer of Cisco. KTVU's Jana Katsuyama asked him why there's so much chatter now about the growth and dangers of AI. We have moved from this world of chatbots that intelligently answer questions for us to agents that are going to conduct tasks and jobs for us almost fully autonomously. And these agents, I used to joke about them that, you know, they're like teenagers. They, they have, they're supremely intelligent. They have no fear of consequence. And oftentimes they exercise poor judgment. We've now gotten to the point where the growth curve is almost a vertical line. And so the pace of innovation is extremely fast. And it's more about making sure that safety and security can keep up in the pace of innovation with the base of AI. Patel advises society must make sure the strongest AI defenses are available to every person and group that security is only as strong as its weakest link. He hopes defense costs drop so low that organizations like nonprofits and affordable impenetrable safeguards rather than just for the elite few.