Microsoft CEO urges AI developers “to get to a point where we are using this to do something useful,” or “lose even the social permission...to generate these tokens”

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI must deliver clear societal benefits or risk losing public support
• Nadella urged AI developers to focus on improving health, education, and productivity
• Otherwise, people will reject AI energy use

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is concerned that if artificial intelligence doesn’t start delivering real, measurable benefits to society, people will be fed up with it and its price, ending its current form of existence. The Davos stage is an odd venue and audience to preach societal good over other goods, but it certainly helped his comments stand out.

AI developers "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," Nadella explained during a conversation with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.

"We will quickly lose ...