Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 26 | Page 35

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// FEATURE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE good guys to have at least as good if not better technology and technologists than the bad guys. What advice would you give to industry leaders looking to use AI? If it was easy, there wouldn’t be companies supplying anti-virus software and maintaining it up to date, as well as hiring honest hackers to try and break codes deliberately to test their weaknesses. But AI is certainly going to be both a weapon on both sides. In South Africa where we’ve got 27% unemployment, it’s important to use it ethically and responsibly. www.intelligentcio.com There are a global set of standards that are voluntarily used as a code of practice for those that have signed up for them. Andrew Quixley, Watson and Cloud Platform Leader from IBM INTELLIGENTCIO 35