Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu raps mad rush to launch and deploy AI tools

Sridhar Vembu, co-founder and CEO of Zoho Corporation, has criticised companies that have been racing to deploy generative AI technology into their products without ensuring fairness, transparency, and accountability.

“Nobody wants to fall behind in the AI arms race. There’s a rush going on, but that is also limiting the adoption of AI in business. Can you rely on it, and can it be truthful? Take the issue of copyright: it generates some code for you, but what if it lifted the code verbatim from a library whose license is not so permissive? These are the questions that need to be answered,” Vembu told indianexpress.com on the sidelines of the Zoholics event in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday.