In his interview with the BBC, Mr Pichai said there was some tension between how fast technology was being developed and how mitigations are built in to prevent potential harmful effects.
For Alphabet, Mr Pichai said managing that tension means being ” bold and responsible at the same time”.
“So we are moving fast through this moment. I think our consumers are demanding it,” he said.
The tech giant has also increased its investment in AI security in proportion with its investment in AI, Mr Pichai added.
“For example, we are open-sourcing technology which will allow you to detect whether an image is generated by AI,” he said.
Asked about recently uncovered years-old comments from tech billionaire Elon Musk to OpenAI’s founders around fears the now Google-owned DeepMind could create an AI “dictatorship”, Mr Pichai said “no one company should own a technology as powerful as AI”.
But he added there were many companies in the AI ecosystem today.
“If there was only one company which was building AI technology and everyone else had to use it, I would be concerned about that too, but we are so far from that scenario right now,” he said.
