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The future IT world will look completely different because all those systems will be pulling on the same models.

They'll be training across those different systems and that data will then feed back into those models.

So it'll become a lot more integrated through AI.

That will become the substrate of IT. And so we do have to

think about IT and the enterprise very, very differently because it's slipping in right now. We have

to think about it as the way a species would come into an environment. The way, like, let's say

a snail would attach to a boat and go across Washington and end up in a lake in Idaho.

You won't see it for another year or two what that snail may have done.

Bill Hilf spent decades inside the biggest names in tech, IBM, Microsoft, where he helped to launch Azure and led open source strategy, HP, where he ran cloud and enterprise systems, and Vulcan, where he was CEO of Paul Allen's portfolio of companies and philanthropies.

He now chairs the board of the Allen

Institute for AI and American Prairie, a Montana-based nonprofit that's working to create one of

the largest nature reserves in the United States. But Bill, we're here for a different reason.

That's right. It's great to have you here. We're here to talk about your first novel,

The Disruption,

which is a science fiction thriller about an artificial intelligence that escapes human control

and keeps running for decades. It's also hard not to read it as a commentary, at least implicitly,

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