AI innovation, business use cases, and regulatory issues around AI are at the core of this high-profile panel discussion with Eva Maydell, member of the European Parliament; Ewa Duerr, Director of Product at Google Cloud AI and Peter Robejsek, Country Manager for Germany at Mastercard. The moderator is Larissa Holzki, Head of the Artificial Intelligence Team at Handelsblatt.
“I’m particularly excited about the use case that is probably less familiar to the audience, and that’s code generation”, Ewa Duerr notes. “Because the foundational models can not only do text and images but also generate code, which increases the productivity of any developer by augmenting or auto-completing the code.”
Peter Robejsek explains how Mastercard uses AI to prevent payment fraud with the help of AI. But he also emphasizes that deploying generative AI systems like ChatGPT requires caution.
“The first thing we did when ChatGPT became a thing was to put in place a set of guidelines, what we wanted employees to do and what we did not want employees to do with this technology”, he says. “Because our business model is inherently based on trust.”
Eva Maydell addresses the need to regulate AI but emphasizes that this should not come at the cost of giving companies the freedom to innovate.
“I’m always concerned of over-regulation in general”, she says. “The general guideline that I have in my work is called ‘regulation for innovation’. I would like to make sure that at least regulation is somewhat balanced.”
Be sure to watch Eva Maydell’s keynote speech regarding the proposed EU AI Act as well.
