Microsoft CEO warns that a few AI winners could destroy 'entire industries'

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Microsoft CEO warns that a few AI winners could destroy 'entire industries'

<div class&equals;"wp-block-wptelegram-widget-join-channel aligncenter">&NewLine;&Tab;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;me&sol;nairavoice" class&equals;"components-button join-link is-large has-text has-icon" target&equals;"&lowbar;self" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<svg width&equals;"19px" height&equals;"16px" viewBox&equals;"0 0 19 16" role&equals;"img" aria-hidden&equals;"true" focusable&equals;"false">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<g>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<path d&equals;"M0&period;465&comma;6&period;638 L17&period;511&comma;0&period;073 C18&period;078&comma;-0&period;145 18&period;714&comma;0&period;137 18&period;932&comma;0&period;704 C19&period;009&comma;0&period;903 19&period;026&comma;1&period;121 18&period;981&comma;1&period;33 L16&period;042&comma;15&period;001 C15&period;896&comma;15&period;679 15&period;228&comma;16&period;111 14&period;549&comma;15&period;965 C14&period;375&comma;15&period;928 14&period;211&comma;15&period;854 14&period;068&comma;15&period;748 L8&period;223&comma;11&period;443 C7&period;874&comma;11&period;185 7&period;799&comma;10&period;694 8&period;057&comma;10&period;345 C8&period;082&comma;10&period;311 8&period;109&comma;10&period;279 8&period;139&comma;10&period;249 L14&period;191&comma;4&period;322 C14&period;315&comma;4&period;201 14&period;317&comma;4&period;002 14&period;195&comma;3&period;878 C14&period;091&comma;3&period;771 13&period;926&comma;3&period;753 13&period;8&comma;3&period;834 L5&period;602&comma;9&period;138 C5&period;112&comma;9&period;456 4&period;502&comma;9&period;528 3&period;952&comma;9&period;333 L0&period;486&comma;8&period;112 C0&period;077&comma;7&period;967 -0&period;138&comma;7&period;519 0&period;007&comma;7&period;11 C0&period;083&comma;6&period;893 0&period;25&comma;6&period;721 0&period;465&comma;6&period;638 Z" ><&sol;path>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;g>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;svg>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;Join Nairavoice On Telegram&Tab;<&sol;a>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>AI models are hoovering up corporate knowledge&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s leaving one big loser&comma; says Satya Nadella&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an article posted on X on Sunday&comma; the Microsoft CEO warned of a future in which a handful of AI providers capture most economic value while industries lose ownership of their knowledge&period; &&num;8220&semi;The last thing any of us want is a world where every company across every sector is ceding value to a few models that eat everything they see&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Nadella wrote&period; &&num;8220&semi;There is no societal permission for an AI future that hollows out entire industries&period;&&num;8221&semi; Nadella compared the AI era to globalization&comma; warning against repeating that dynamic&period; &&num;8220&semi;Think about what happened in the first phase of globalization&comma; where entire industrial economies were hollowed out by outsourcing&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he wrote&period; &&num;8220&semi;The GDP numbers looked fine on the surface&comma; but the displacement was real and the consequences are still being felt&period;&&num;8221&semi; Instead&comma; he advocated for a broad AI ecosystem in which companies keep control of their learning systems&comma; which he said would enable innovation and retain employee expertise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nadella&&num;8217&semi;s post echoed concerns other Big Tech CEOs have been raising this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a February podcast&comma; Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said that the biggest software companies are at risk of being reduced to mere data sources&period; &&num;8220&semi;The big model makers want to create a world in which all of the data for all of the enterprises is easily available to them&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Ramaswamy said&period; &&num;8220&semi;Everything else&comma; the world&comma; is just a dumb data pipe that feeds into that big brain&period;&&num;8221&semi; Ramaswamy added that Snowflake needs to operate with a &&num;8220&semi;fear&&num;8221&semi; that people would stop using AI agents developed by software companies and instead want an all-inclusive agent that has data from Snowflake and everywhere else&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a January LinkedIn post&comma; Box CEO Aaron Levie said that AI models can perform high-level knowledge work across nearly every profession&comma; from law to strategy and scientific research&period; &&num;8220&semi;The question that we will have to wrestle with is&comma; in a world where everyone has access to the same expert intelligence&comma; how does a company differentiate&quest;&&num;8221&semi; Levie wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said that context would be the answer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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