Let AI go ‘a little bit rogue,’ says SharkNinja CIO. Better we find the limits than someone else does
Source: Fortune ·
Executives at Salesforce, SharkNinja, and PepsiCo push back on AI doom.
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Ask the executives who run AI inside some of the world’s leading companies whether the technology is going to kill us, and you get an answer that looks vastly different from some recent headlines. “For sure, it won’t kill us,” said Athina Kanioura, PepsiCo’s global chief strategy and transformation officer and CEO of its Latin America Foods business. Kanioura was responding to that very question from Fortune’s Diane Brady during this year’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Santa Barbara, Calif. She and other executives on Brady’s panel said the latest public discourse about AI and its impending doom has fixated on the wrong thing. Much of the recent alarm stems from AI labs’ own stress tests—and their, at times, tardy or less-than-fulsome disclosures—in which frontier models are pushed to deceive, break rules, or resist shutdowns. “The models themselves are not AI. AI is so much more,” said Shibani Ahuja, senior vice president of data and AI strategy at Salesforce. The recent media…