“I really did cringe, because I would not call myself godmother of anything.”
– Dr. Fei Fei Li, on being called the “Godmother of AI”
“People think, okay, there’s my intelligence and there’s AI. AI is not part of me, but it’s actually going to be part of you. It’s going inside your brain by the early 2030s… and you won’t be able to tell whether a premise is coming from yourself or from your computational AI.”
– Ray Kurzweil, Futurist and Inventor
“There are a lot of things we should be doing that we’re not doing. And I’m going to draw an analogy… The mistake was not globalization. The mistake was in not preparing for the consequences of globalization. There was very little done to map out and prepare people whose jobs were vulnerable. And you could predict certain categories were going to be more vulnerable than others. Well, that’s where we are now.”
– Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States
“If you’ve got a digital twin, you can run a simulation and then compare that to the reality of what’s happening in the actual enterprise, we’re going to get a much, much deeper level of insight… The M&A example I think is again very interesting… I’m going to create a digital twin of both companies… I’m going to simulate what it means to bring those together… Which nobody’s doing today.”
– Phil Wiser, CTO of Paramount
“Upwards of 70% of [our] page views are coming from agents. And only 30% from humans. So the user of the internet is changing.”
– Guillermo Ranch, CEO of Vercel
“Women were not included in most clinical trials until 1992. Unbelievable. Crazy, right? … if you ask a medical question in most of the large language models, they don’t know that actually you need to only look at studies that were done later.”
– Tom Hale, CEO of Oura
“Around the time that electronic music was invented, everybody was saying that electronic music has no soul. [Björk] was saying that if there’s no soul in your music, it’s because nobody put it there. Don’t blame the computer if there’s no soul in your design either.”
– Loredana Crisan, Chief Design Officer at Figma
“Nations are saying, ‘Hey, we have a leaderboard. And whoever makes the leaderboard gets a prize,’ or so on. The problem with that is that then token maxing happens, right? … If your goal is to just burn a lot of money, there are easy ways to do that. This stuff. So that’s not really useful. It’s also just going to cost a lot of nations money.”
– Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks
“If you’re a software engineer now and you’re not leaning into these tools, you’re probably not being a self-actualized version of yourself.”
– Bret Taylor, Co-founder of Sierra
“What does a Shopify for agents look like? Imagine you could just create a business by thinking of an idea…. How do I have side hustles that are all agentic—that I manage—on ideas that I can have over a cocktail conversation?”
– Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
“I feel a lot of pressure to seize the opportunity with AI…you worry about what competition can do if you don’t seize the opportunity.”
– Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake
“This is the one thing that people always forget about San Francisco… San Francisco’s number one industry is not tech, it’s not AI, it’s actually tourism.”
– Daniel Lurie, Mayor of San Francisco
“If I am Cisco, or if I am Disney, I want to make sure that I’m not just getting a vibe-coded startup to come in and basically get access to my entire enterprise data.”
– Navrina Singh, Founder and CEO of Credo AI
“What we’re not doing a great job on is ‘How can [AI] actually benefit all of us?’”
– Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO of Glean
