Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella compared AI's impact to the problems globalization first caused.
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AI models are hoovering up corporate knowledge, and that's leaving one big loser, says Satya Nadella.In an article posted on X on Sunday, 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."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," Nadella wrote. "There is no societal permission for an AI future that hollows out entire industries."Nadella compared the AI era to globalization, warning against repeating that dynamic."Think about what happened in the first phase of globalization, where entire industrial economies were hollowed out by outsourcing," he wrote. "The GDP numbers looked fine on the surface, but the displacement was real and the consequences are still being felt."Instead, he advocated for a broad AI ecosystem in which companies keep control of their learning systems, which he said would enable innovation and retain employee expertise.Nadella's post echoed concerns other Big Tech CEOs have been raising this year.
