Ar­ti­fi­cial Tech­nol­o­gy will take over the world, but pol­i­cy­mak­ers have make sure that there are prop­er eth­i­cal guide­lines in place to reg­u­late its us­age.

This was the call made by Carl Whyte, pres­i­dent of the US-based com­pa­ny Gwa­va group at day 2 of the CAN­TO An­nu­al Gen­er­al meet­ing at the Hy­att Re­gency on Tues­day.

"I want us to ex­plore how this tech­nol­o­gy is evolv­ing from just an ob­ser­va­to­ry to some­thing that is evolv­ing to some­thing that is more proac­tive and in­tel­li­gent. The AI an­a­lyt­ics rev­o­lu­tion is a game chang­er " said Whyte, who not­ed that it of­fered great po­ten­tial for da­ta col­lec­tion and pro­cess­ing.

How­ev­er, he added, it al­so would raise sig­nif­i­cant eth­i­cal ques­tions.

"We want to know that we are safe, and that big broth­er is not watch­ing all the time," said Whyte who ref­er­enced the phrase pop­u­larised by com­ic book su­per­hero Spi­der­man, "with great pow­er comes great re­spon­si­bil­i­ty."

"With this ad­vent of AI it rais­es im­por­tant eth­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions around pri­va­cy and trans­paren­cy," said Whyte who called for prop­er reg­u­la­tions for use of AI by busi­ness­es and gov­ern­ments alike.

He not­ed that there has been progress in the de­vel­op­ment of reg­u­la­tions in­ter­na­tion­al­ly for use of AI, but al­so stressed that while util­is­ing this tech­nol­o­gy we should not leave de­ci­sion mak­ing up to al­go­rithms.

"In or­der for AI to ac­com­plish their mis­sion, hu­mans must re­main in the loop," said Whyte, "I am that hu­man when it comes to sur­veil­lance."

"De­spite the AI's ca­pa­bil­i­ty, hu­man be­ings must be kept in the loop and en­sure that the fi­nal de­ci­sion is made by us," he said.