#ai-leadership

#ai-leadership

Varshney comes from IBM, where he was the head of data and artificial intelligence for the technology pioneer's consulting business. At Citi, he will report to Anand Selva, the bank's chief operating officer; and will work closely with the firm's chief technology officer, David Griffiths, to scale AI across the company, according to a memo sent to Citi employees on Tuesday morning seen by Business Insider.

The leader of a key Amazon AI project is stepping down. Dilip Kumar, VP of AWS Applications, is leaving his current position, according to people familiar with the matter. Kumar has been overseeing AWS's upcoming Quick Suite AI agent software, Business Insider previously reported. Quick Suite marks a major overhaul of AWS's AI application strategy. He also ran the Q Business AI chatbot and QuickSight analytics tool.

Bret Taylor, expressed his anxiety that AI chatbots like ChatGPT are redefining his relationship to technology, destroying - or at least making unrecognizable - the world of programming in which he built his career. "The thing I self-identify withis just, like, being obviated by this technology," Taylor said in the interview. "So it's like, the reason why I think these tools are being embraced so quickly is they truly are like an Iron Man suit for all of us as individuals."

"50% of the world's AI developers are in China," he said. "The first job of any platform is to win all developers."