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The Godfather of AI Just Warned Us | John Hennessy
AI’s recent breakthroughs may feel sudden — but as John Hennessy points out, they’re the result of decades of work.
In this episode of Deep, the former Stanford president, RISC chip pioneer, and current Alphabet chairman shares about the long arc of innovation: why the last 10 years have delivered AI’s biggest payoffs, how universities fuel trillion-dollar industries, and why cutting basic research now could cost the U.S. its technological edge.
Hennessy unpacks the mix of corporate, academic, and startup R&D that drives progress, the push to make AI models more efficient, and the leadership lessons that scale from lab teams to boardrooms.
Plus, he shares his perspective on the future of computing, Silicon Valley’s evolving role, and what it really takes to turn breakthrough science into world-changing companies.
