Jamie Dimon, CEO of financial titan JP Morgan Chase, spoke in favor of artificial intelligence development, warning that "bad guys" would be utilizing the technology whether mainstream companies do or not.
Dimon made the comment in the JP Morgan Chase Annual Report for 2022 — in a section titled "AI, Data, and Our Journey to the Cloud."
"AI and data use is complex; it must be done following the laws of the land," Dimon wrote. "But it is an absolute necessity that we do it both for the benefits I just described and, equally, for the protection of the company and the financial system – because you can be certain that the bad guys will be using it, too."
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The comments seem to be in response to a growing demand from tech leaders for the development of AI to be paused.
Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and a host of other tech leaders and artificial intelligence experts urged AI labs to pause development of powerful new AI systems in an open letter last month, citing potential risks to society.
The letter asked developers to "immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4." GPT-4 is the latest deep learning model from OpenAI, which "exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks," according to the lab.
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It was issued by the Future of Life Institute and signed by more than 1,000 people, including Musk, who argued that safety protocols need to be developed by independent overseers to guide the future of AI systems.
"Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable," the letter said.
Dimon, however, championed the technology and stressed that it must be a cornerstone of JP Morgan Chase's operations moving forward.
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"AI and the raw material that feeds it, data, will be critical to our company’s future success — the importance of implementing new technologies simply cannot be overstated," Dimon wrote.
Dimon claimed that AI has helped the company decrease risk by minimizing fraud and optimizing portfolio construction.
The CEO continued, "All of our technology groups firmwide work together in a flywheel of innovation and deliver state-of-the-art improvements. We are proud that our AI teams have contributed top-quality novel research and compelling solutions that are transforming more and more business cases every day."
FOX Business' Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
