Nikesh Arora
speaker
2,918 appearances
12 recordings
8 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Aug
Nikesh Arora’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The world is talking about agents.
We can have a whole episode, 90 minutes, on about what are agents, what is really an agent, how do you give agency, and how do you control an agent.
It's funny, people tell me they've agentified stuff, but then I ask them, does it actually have agency?
Like, what does that mean?
I'm like, Waymo has agency.
It can drive you into the wall without human intervention.
This is a bad problem.
But most people haven't actually given agency to their agents.
So they're running glorified workflows, which are...
deemingly agentifying things, but when you start giving agency to things, when a piece of code can decide what happens next, we're going to have a whole different conversation on how do you secure those agents, how do you build kill switches, how do you intercept them in line, how do you stop them from doing bad things.
Just like Jason's agent, which did a bad thing and took Jason's gems, and now the whole world will find out what Jason's gems are.
I'm going to hire you soundbite.
Good.
Average intelligence is going to be free in the long term.
And the average intelligence will keep getting better.
Nice.
I was watching somebody speak the other day, and they said if you whisper loudly into the mic, people lean over and pay more attention.
So I'll say it again.
I say in the long term, average intelligence is going to be free, and the average intelligence will get smarter.
Oh no, we'll need exceptional intelligence.
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