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Shift: A podcast about mobility

General Motors product chief Sterling Anderson on GM’s next steps, guided by technology

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

Business

4.637 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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General Motors is envisioning “what your vehicle could become if we think about it as the most useful, technologically advanced robot most people will ever own,” Sterling Anderson, GM’s executive vice president, global product, and chief product officer, said on the Shift podcast. Anderson spoke with Automotive News reporter Lindsay VanHulle in New York on Oct. 22. He detailed parts of GM’s next chapter: a centralized vehicle computing architecture that makes vehicles smarter over time, “eyes...

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome to the Automotive News Shift podcast, where we bring you the latest on

0:09.1

automotive technology, trends, and transformation. I'm Hannah Lutz, Director of Technology

0:15.1

and Innovation coverage at Automotive News. And I'm Molly Boygan, tech and innovation reporter at

0:20.5

Automotive News. Today's guest is

0:22.9

Sterling Anderson, Executive Vice President, Global Product and Chief Product Officer for General Motors.

0:29.1

He spoke with Automotive News reporter Lindsay Van Haley. Trust really, really matters here.

0:34.6

If you want to play the long game in autonomy, you roll out incrementally and

0:39.2

slowly. But first, let's talk about the news of the week. Our colleague Lindsay Van Holley is with us today.

0:45.5

Lindsay covers General Motors and went to New York this week to learn about some of the technology

0:49.6

news from GM. Lindsay, what's the latest? Hi, everybody. Yeah, it's great to be here.

0:55.2

And I was in New York earlier this week for essentially a future technology strategy presentation.

1:02.6

GM had reporters to kind of outline what they were looking to do.

1:07.1

And really, there's a number of things that they've outlined here that touch on

1:11.5

artificial intelligence, advanced computing, advanced automated driving, a lot of things really that

1:18.9

are sort of accelerating what they do today and really sort of around this idea that, you know,

1:24.9

a vehicle is not just a mode of transportation anymore, but an

1:29.1

intelligent assistant, you know, something that gets smarter over time and really uses that

1:34.6

intelligence just to be faster and more efficient in how it operates and the information

1:39.4

it gives you. So they've talked about some artificial intelligence that's going to be in the vehicle starting next year.

1:49.1

They're going to have conversational AI in the vehicle that incorporates some Google technology.

1:56.1

And in the future, they're going to actually work on developing their own tool, their own AI tool.

2:01.5

It'll draw on a lot of the data that they gather right now through their OnStar service.

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