Kevin Scott
The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Kevin Scott exemplifies The Architect, a leader who builds enduring technical foundations rather than chasing headlines. As Microsoft's CTO, he was instrumental in shaping the company's deep partnership with OpenAI, a bet that repositioned a legacy giant at the center of the generative AI era.
“We obviously are the ones who are the like we partner closely defining what the infrastructure ought to look like, but like we're the ones who have to go out and build it and ramp everything up to scale. And then we do a whole bunch of work together on implementation and deployment.”
“Between high ambition AI and average ambition AI and just slowly over time with Satya pushing, with me pushing, with peers pushing, like we got to a point where like everybody had a point of view about where AI was heading and about what a good level of ambition looked like, it took a little bit longer to get people to agree on like, hey,…”
“Doesn't mean that you can't put a whole bunch of measures in place to make sure that just super weird stuff doesn't happen. I don't find a huge amount of comfort wallowing in these artificial general superintelligence conversations. Because even there, like narrowly speaking, we probably are going to want some forms of superintelligence.”
“Yeah, and it's a super good question because there were lots of opinions back when we were beginning these conversations about what we ought to do. And the guiding principle that we had is Microsoft is a platform company.”
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