Microsoft’s Nadella turns on the AI giants he helped build

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In a blunt interview, Satya Nadella warned that the AI giants cannot keep promising mass job losses while demanding the power to build whatever they want. Microsoft’s answer: cheaper models, more control for customers, and a pitch for the public’s trust.

Satya Nadella helped start the AI boom. Now he has a warning for the companies running it.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the Microsoft chief took aim at the AI giants. They cannot keep telling the world that AI will erase white-collar work, he argued. Meanwhile, they ask for limitless power to build as they please.

“You can’t say, hey, all white-collar jobs are gone and this could even be a weapon, and we will use all the power to build data centres,” Nadella said.

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