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The McKinsey Podcast · 2026-09-24 · 24 min · 4,664 words

Democratized superintelligence is coming: The world needs to get ready

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Roberta, great to see you. Lucia, always great to see you. So it's been a challenging couple of weeks for AI in the media. Society is asking some tough questions about superintelligent AI and its influence on how we work. And

how we will work in the future. Very far into the future, we hope, right? Hopefully, hopefully. So today's episode super timely. We have Brett Taylor who is actually the chairman of OpenAI in conversation with Eric Kutcher, our North America chair.

Brett is also the co-founder and CEO of Sierra, which helps companies build sophisticated AI agents. Yeah, and you know, Lucia, what I found really interesting about this conversation is that Brett is both very optimistic about what AI can do, but also incredibly realistic about the concerns associated with AI development. And in this conversation we hear about all of it. We hear about cybersecurity, Frontier Labs versus

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