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Hi everybody welcome to shift a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your

host and reporter to the Automotive News. Joining me on the podcast today, I'm pleased to welcome Augustine Wechider, the co-leader of Boston Consulting Group

Center for Mobility Innovation.

We've got a great discussion ahead on where the automated driving industry is really headed and an examination of some EV pain points

But first we've got this week's headlines to review and for that I'm joined by my colleague Molly Boegon

Molly how are you today? I'm doing well thanks Pete how are you I'm doing good good to be here

on the shift podcast and I know like me you've also been working on some

artificial intelligence related stories this week it feels like it's pretty much everywhere

these days including throughout the auto industry but but maybe you're

going to tell me that's not quite the case. Yeah it's a little bit more nuanced than that

Pete I wrote this week about a McKinsey study that found that only 14% of mobility companies

meaningfully use AI. So what the firm did is analyze 3,500 company descriptions for keywords that indicate that the

companies are either working on products related to AI or meaningfully

enable their products with AI and yet it's sort of a is a smaller

showing that I think a lot of people would think of given the given the

buzzwordy nature of AI right now. Sure. If AI is kind of buzz wordy like you just said

what are those companies that are working on something meaningful doing what what's their reality with AI today.

Yeah, so it's it's sort of up and down the supply chain.

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