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Right now, the zeitgeist is a little bit about the admiration for AI in its abstract form or as as technology. But I think we as even a global community have to get to a point where we are using this to do something useful. That changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries. Otherwise I don't think this makes much sense. In fact I would say we will quickly lose even the social permission to actually take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens, if these tokens are not improving health outcomes, education outcomes, public sector efficiency, private sector competitiveness across all sectors, small and large, right? And that to me is ultimately the goal. Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, Davos 2026 youtube.com/watch?v=1co3zt3-r7I

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Right now, the zeitgeist is a little bit about the admiration for AI in its abstract form or as as technology. But I think we as even a global community have to get to a point where we are using this to do something useful. That changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries. Otherwise I don't think this makes much sense. In fact I would say we will quickly lose even the social permission to actually take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens, if these tokens are not improving health outcomes, education outcomes, public sector efficiency, private sector competitiveness across all sectors, small and large, right? And that to me is ultimately the goal. Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, Davos 2026 youtube.com/watch?v=1co3zt3-r7I
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Stuart Langridge (sil@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 00:14:00 JST Stuart Langridge

I couldn't believe that PC Gamer headline was a proper reflection of what was said, but... it was.
The thing which most annoys me is that they seem to believe they have a right to do a damaging thing (which they acknowledge is damaging) in the hope that they might find something impactful to do with it (which they acknowledge they haven't, yet) because there's currently a lot of hype about it, and the only time limit on this is "find something before the hype runs out".

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