Brad Smith
Brad Smith is Vice Chair and President of Microsoft Corporation, a role he has held since 2015 (elevated to Vice Chair in 2021) after joining the company in 1993. He oversees Microsoft's legal, corporate affairs, and policy functions across more than 50 countries, and is the company's principal voice on issues at the intersection of technology and society, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, and human rights. He is widely known for advocating responsible AI development and for co-authoring the book Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age, which calls for greater accountability in the technology industry. His recent public remarks on AI — including the observation that heavy AI users among younger generations are also among its loudest critics — align directly with the context provided.
“Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Rwandan President Paul Kagame will co-chair the commission. Tech leaders include Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, Cohere co-founder Aidan Gomez, Microsoft president Brad Smith, and Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang.”
Source→“Brad Smith 'said let's not panic about AI's alleged hit to the labor market, signaling that the doom and gloom over AI and work may be related to investment goals rather than truth about the technology.'”
Source→“Working-age Americans in cities are nearly twice as likely to use AI as those in rural communities.”
Source→“Smith noted that while college-aged people are the heaviest users of AI, they are also among the technology's loudest critics.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.