Over the past year, tech and business luminaries—including NVIDIA's Jensen Huang and LinkedIn's founder Reid Hoffman—have visited our campus. These leaders shared their insights on artificial intelligence's transformative impact on business and the workplace.
Explore their perspectives on how AI is shaping the future of work by watching the video above or reading the key quotes below.
“AI is not going to take your jobs. The person who uses AI is going to take your job.”
“Use AI as fast as you can so that you can stay gainfully employed.”
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA
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“When you think about the milestones that have defined mankind, it's a couple of dozen things. I think [AI is] on the sheet, so we are at the very beginning of a major moment that people will look back on the history books and say that's the date.”
Mark Peter Davis ’08, Managing Partner of Interplay
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“We are creating a cognitive industrial revolution; a steam engine of the mind. And as part of that it greatly amplifies what we're capable of. So with the steam engine, you know, that made physical things, but stronger, and kicked off the industrial revolution. It allowed you transport and logistics, allowed you manufacturing. This is now that, but in the kind of cognitive and language characteristics.”
Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn and Inflection AI
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“I think [AI is] going to help us to enhance the service level, but never ever replace the human, the human judgment. There’s a lot of artificial intelligence in this world. We need real intelligence; we need people with real skills and real thought leadership. And we need to supplement that with the human touch. You can never replace the human element.”
Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta Air Lines
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“We need to frame this narrative to be not "AI or," because that's how we're speaking about all of this all the time: AI or the human. And we need to reframe it and think about it as "AI and" human, plus. That AI is a more powerful creative engine.”
Golnar Khosrowshahi ’97, Founder of Reservoir Media
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“There are over 100 million listings on Etsy, and there are 30 spots for a listing on the first page of search results. That is a superhuman task that requires AI, and there are machine learning technologies we've been using for years. Then there's generative AI, which is the latest version or a new set of techniques within AI. For us, that can help with things like, ‘I'm looking for a gift for my wife because it's Valentine's Day.’ Generative AI can come up with, ‘Here are 10 clever ideas for a gift for your wife.’ It’s the kind of thing that generative AI can actually have a conversation about. So, when you walk into a store and there's a sales assistant, their job is to curate the world and take everything in the store and narrow it down quickly to the few things that matter. On Etsy, that conversation matters even more.”
Josh Silverman, CEO of Etsy
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