Move over, Mark Cuban, you’re not alone in your AI thinking. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna took the stage at SXSW to talk about the powers of AI, which he thinks is a valuable technology — but no panacea.
Krishna said he thinks AI will ultimately make programmers more productive, boosting their and their employers’ outputs rather than eliminating programming jobs, as some AI critics have predicted. Krishna compared the debates over AI replacing workers to early debates over calculators and Photoshop replacing mathematicians and artists.
“It’s a tool,” Krishna said of AI. “If the quality that everybody produces becomes better using these tools, then even for the consumer, now you’re consuming better-quality [products].”
