Brad Smith

That's another big part of what we at Microsoft are announcing here this week.

Fundamentally, I think we should recognize a few things.

These kinds of technology waves typically take years and decades, not weeks or months.

I think we should recognize that none of this is fundamentally ever about what technology does to people.

It's about people making decisions about how to use technology.

People who run businesses, people who run governments, people who run nonprofits.

we have an opportunity i believe to use ai to make jobs better for people there will be some processes that are automated there will be some jobs that are displaced but new jobs will be created but mostly i think many jobs will change and the key is to give people access to ai tools give them the skills that they need to use them

give people the opportunity to innovate in how they work.

I think when you do that you create a much better foundation for the future.

I had a fascinating conversation just the last few days in another country.

And it was with people in a company that had a contest for employees to use AI to create new studies.

Let me go back to that if I could.

I had a fascinating conversation earlier this week in another country.

Somebody who works in a company was describing the contest they had so that employees could use AI and create more use cases to create uses of AI that advanced productivity or built better products.

But the most interesting thing this person said to me was it wasn't fundamentally about creating a better product.

It was about finding the people.

who wanted to lean in, who wanted to innovate, who had creativity and ambition.

I think there's something that's important and even inspiring for all of us in that give people access to the tools, to AI, see what they can do.

If you find an employee who wants to innovate, that says that that's an innovative person.

That's the kind of person you want to bet the future of your company on by investing in their development.