What to Expect at Today’s DealBook Summit: Full Speaker Lineup: David Ricks, Fatima Cody, President and CEO of the Association of Flight Attendants
David Ricks, the chair and C.E.O. of Eli Lilly, and Fatima Cody Stanford, obesity medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Shawn and Sara are the international president and vice president of the Association of Flight Attendants.
What to watch: The buzz, fears and questions around artificial intelligence, and the billions of dollars pouring into its advancement; the future of politics, media and political fund-raising; new weight-loss drugs and their potential impact across industries; trade wars; China-U.S. relations; interest rates; private spaceflight; and the evolution of the labor movement — these topics and more will be covered by Andrew as he talks with some of the biggest newsmakers in business, politics and culture.
There will be plenty of questions about an uncertain world. In order to disrupt the status quo, Trump has promised to do so. What will this mean for the independence of political institutions? There is a world where protectionist policies have been adopted, so what will happen to global trade alliances? How will these changes affect markets, businesses, and the economy? What will this reveal about who will make the most money on Wall Street and in Washington?
Looking elsewhere, what guardrails, if any, should be placed around powerful A.I. technologies? What is the meaning of the new attacks on corporate D.E.I. programs?
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Tim Cook: Apple Park’s CEO and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Apple Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Apple Park)
The first conversation will begin soon after Andrew takes the stage. The DealBook team and reporters from The Times will be reporting live from the conference.
Cook also contends that Apple has been preparing for the AI revolution all along. He was also the reason for a rare expansion of the company’s senior vice president ranks. Then he pulled the plug on a long-running smart-car program (an open secret never publicly acknowledged by Apple) and marshaled the company’s machine-learning talent to build AI into its software products.
In June, Apple announced the results: a layer of AI for its whole product line. Cook had also brokered a deal with the gold standard in chatbots, OpenAI, so that his users could have access to ChatGPT. I’d gotten a few demos of what they were planning to reveal, including a tool to create custom emoji with verbal prompts and an easy-to-use AI picture generator called Image Playground. (I hadn’t yet tested the revivification of Siri, Apple’s lackluster AI agent.)
Cook didn’t panic. Like his predecessor Steve Jobs, he doesn’t believe that first is best. He thinks that “classic Apple” is a cacophonous field of first-movers with a strong grasp of novelty and sexy products. Think of how the iPod changed its music selection. It wasn’t the first MP3 player, but its compactness, ease of use, and integration with an online store thrilled people with a new way to consume their tunes.
Every time I go to the Apple Park campus, my mind goes to a tour which I took months before construction was done, when there was mud and dust on the floor. Tim Cook was the CEO of Apple. I was taken through the $5 billion circular colossus by a proprietor who explained that he would commit to the new campus in 100 years.