Q&A: Google executive talks about the AI arms race, monopolization and the Online News Act [Video]

Kent Walker has a clear message about AI: The race is on between several countries to develop the technology, and the “only thing worse than being in an arms race is an arms race that you lose.”

Walker, the president of global affairs at Google and Alphabet, its parent holding company, joined international officials and experts at the Halifax International Security Forum this weekend. He described artificial intelligence as a “breakthrough in the way we make breakthroughs.”

On Friday, Walker sat down with Catherine Cullen, host of CBC’s The House, to share his perspective on the global risks and rewards of AI technology, monopolization and Canada’s Online News Act.

There have been stark warnings about the risks artificial intelligence poses to humankind. As the U.S. and China compete for dominance in the field of artificial intelligence, Catherine Cullen sits down for a Canadian exclusive interview with Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google, to …