If we think about that scaling continuously and growing and growing and growing, you can get to a place where even if you're optimistic, AI is fundamentally doing everything for us.

Thinking of it in the short term and thinking of it in the long term, how do you see it philosophically beyond just a product?

Philosophically, I have always wanted to be a part of something that advances technology

and uses it to make people better.

Now, 100 years, 500 years from now, people may look back and say, wow, this guy,

Brad Smith, he was like a real backwards thinker.

He didn't have the vision to see that we were creating a new species that would replace humanity.

I don't want to replace humanity.

This is What Now with Trevor Noah.

Thank you. This is What Now with Trevor Noah.

Brad Smith, welcome to the podcast.

It's great, as always, to be with you, Trevor.

This is really a fascinating and fun experience for me because I didn't plan it, which, most of my favorite things in life is how I like things to be. I planned being here with you, you know,

at the CEO summit here in Microsoft in Seattle. That's why I'm wearing a suit. This is not my

usual attire. But when I knew I was going to be spending the week here, I thought to

myself, man, if there's one person I'd love to have on the podcast, it's somebody I'll often have

the most fascinating conversations with, and that's Brad Smith, not just the vice chair and

president of Microsoft, but a thinker. I really appreciate you as a deep thinker.

And you and I have been, I mean, I've known you for,

how many years has been now?

Since October 2016.

Yeah, look at that, 2016.

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