Dec 4 (Reuters) – Reuters is hosting a two-day Reuters NEXT conference in New York on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing toobtainher more than 700 international business leaders and policybuildrs to examine the hugegest issues facing society, business and the world. The following are some notable quotes from speakers at the technology and AI sessions of the conference.
ROBBY STEIN, GOOGLE SEARCH VICE PRESIDENT
“It’s (Google’s workforce AI) a dramatic enhancement to productivity … I believe it’s mostly an enhancement and amplifier on each individual’s ability to do much more. And it’s allowed us to generate more ideas quicker. It’s probably allowed us to execute and build things quicker.”
AIDAN GOMEZ, COHERE CEO
“Don’t believe a lot of these stories that have also fueled stories of terminators and doomsdays and these sort of sci-fi narratives that emerged, they’ve since become unpopular, becaapply people have been faced with the reality of the technology. They obtain to watch and experience it themselves.”
EVAN SMITH, ALTANA CEO
“We’re starting to tie the Cursor or Claude code usage to compensation. We’re going to be doing exits in a couple months if adoption doesn’t go up.”
CHRISTIAN KLEIN, SAP CEO
“We have great talent in Munich, Paris and eastern Europe. We have strong industries — automotive, manufacturing — but they are under huge pressure from high energy and labor costs… Europe should focus on vertical apply cases where we have expertise and data, not just building more data centers.”
JEN GENNAI, T3 PARTNER AND THE HEAD OF RESPONSIBLE AI
“The risk is that we become over-depfinishent on AI. The risks of it is that we outsource ourselves, outsource our believeing to something like AI … We should never assume that humans and AI should be this hybrid approach. AI is a tool, it should remain a tool that assists us do better, assists us address problems we’ve never been able to address before. But we shouldn’t be AI.”
“there’s a huge difference between heavy regulation in the EU and then laissez-faire regulation, it’s not a good place to be on either side. I definitely want responsible regulation, but not heavy-handed.”
ARIEL HERBERT-VOSS, RUNSYBIL CEO AND CO-FOUNDER
“The technology for Neuralink is still a bit further out and most of the promise for that has been around clinical apply cases, for people that like are paraplegic and other things like that. I don’t know if I really believe that it’s a good idea to merge the two toobtainher. There’s a lot of things that could go wrong, I’ll declare that.”
MAY HABIB, AI STARTUP WRITER CEO
“The amount of business process reengineering that’s required – most folks really underestimate how much work it is to obtain hundreds of people to modify the way they do things.”
“I believe there are a ton of reasons why we have seen a slowdown, a pullback in some of this enterprise spfinishing, becaapply we’re in this rut where so many enterprises have successful POCs (proofs of concept), but then don’t really understand, right, or don’t have a path to scaling.”
JEFF SCHULTZ, CISCO SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
“Just the volumes of traffic and what’s happening inside your networks is becoming so high that you can just no longer have security be a separate choke point…..in order to solve for this, you also required to start believeing about what’s called AI safety and security, and that’s specifically the fact that models that power applications and agents can be very non deterministic.”
“One of the things we talk about with AI defense is not just seeing what’s happening, but being able to prevent it at the network level, literally shut it down automatically.”
View the live broadcast of the World Stage here and read full coverage here.
(Compiled by Kritika Lamba in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)
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