Enterprises have a 'responsibility' to take part in AI legislation

Brian Sozzi · Executive Editor

Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 4:33 AM

As artificial intelligence (AI) evolves, AI regulation has become a key debate around the technology. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) CEO Antonio Neri and Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi discuss how to approach legislating the emerging tech at the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

"The ability to regulate [AI] is very hard," Neri says, noting that compared to other tech inflection points, AI "is going fast," highlighting OpenAI's ChatGPT rapidly growing ChatGPT users.

"I will say the private sector has the responsibility to come to the table with the public sector, the legislation side, to provide the input so that the legislation [can] take care of what needs to be done from a society perspective, from a national security perspective [at the same] time, making sure the advancement [of] these technologies are not held back because the fact of the matter, it's going to happen one way or the other," he adds.

"The reality is that enterprises are very smart. I spend more than 50% of my time with enterprises all over the world, and they have a very responsible approach to what they're doing," the CEO says, explaining "This technology is not cheap" so, "CFOs and CEOs have a lot to say and also making sure that the way they do business has some sort of conduct around it" to protect the return on investment (ROI).