“The rate of extinction of Fortune 500 companies … will be three or four times what it is today.”
“Your oncologist will cost the same as your farm worker does today.”
“Intelligence becomes abundant.”
Box Works CEO Aaron Levie and venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems cofounder Vinod Khosla met on a beautiful summer evening in San Francisco during a dinner with executives from companies all around the world. These are just a few soundbites from their conversation.
“Everything you do is a risk,” Levie said, “but the single biggest risk you can take is to not take the risk of AI.” That is the pivot point of this chapter. Not whether AI is ready for you, but whether you are ready to put it to work where it counts.
From there, Khosla painted a vision of a future that is, against all this overwhelming noise and disruption, actually meant to be operational.
Imagine healthcare without rationed expertise, where an oncologist’s insight costs about what a farm worker earns today. Not to diminish the craft of medicine, but to pressure-test the system: if expert advice were abundant and near-zero marginal cost, how would you redesign ...
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