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Brad Smith, president of Microsoft: ‘We must have a way to slow down or turn off artificial intelligence’
The executive is in favor of governments and civil society putting pressure on the industry to regulate AI: ‘The more powerful the technology becomes, the stronger the safeguards and controls need to become with it’