Aaron Levie

I'm sure there's more, but like one is when you look at work, if you kind of imagine like a mass of work, and then you kind of think about AI taking part of that mass, that's sort of like I think our default instinct because of, you know, kind of what literature says and sci-fi.

Sci-fi doesn't sort of anticipate like dynamic economies.

It usually says, okay, we're working in the factory, robots took the jobs, and now nobody's working anymore.

That's exactly right.

So every sci-fi book ever written has a lump of labor fallacy built into it.

I think there's a different way to think about AI, which is imagine work is actually on a timeline.

If you kind of zoomed out over a 200-year period, let's say back 100 years, forward 100 years,

And you just sort of look at progress in society.

All we're really doing in work is sort of moving through some progress in society, right?

We're trying to like cure cancer faster.

We're trying to, you know, give people better transportation so they can get places.

We're trying to entertain people in new ways.

My view is AI is an accelerant to the timeline as opposed to a reduction of the kind of mass of work.

And so if you start to think about it more as an acceleration on the timeline, then it gives you a little bit of some instruction of then what to go focus on with AI, which is use AI to move faster as an organization.

If as a byproduct of that, you save money, fantastic.

Or if you can now do things that are now cheaper because you're moving faster, also fantastic.

But use AI to actually move faster as an organization.

So if you roll out a year from now, but then I think even probably, you know, it's almost easier to think about five years from now than one year.

But at some kind of point in time in the not crazy amount of future,

I would just argue that we should have, you know, three, five, 10x more leverage as individuals inside of an organization, which means that when we go and brainstorm a new marketing campaign to go do, instead of us having to have three brainstorms over a two-week period and go and, you know, talk to lots of other companies for best practices and benchmarks, that might be a 30-minute exercise, you know, just involving your marketing people and AI kind of, you know, coordinating on that.