Quote of the day by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: 'We have to do something useful with AI, or we'll quickly lose social permission'

Date:
Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0000

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Many people across the business world are finding AI useful, but that doesn't mean it's making a wider impact on society at least not yet

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter As the AI buildout continues
and models improve from generation to generation, fears persist over how useful this technology will actually be in practice and whether AI will reach a ceiling before it makes a meaningful impact.

Although roles and responsibilities, and jobs, are being replaced in the name of AI, does that mean it's changing things for the better? "We as a global community have to get to a point where we're using this to do something
useful Otherwise, I don't think this makes much sense In fact, I'll say we'll quickly lose even the social permission to actually take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens." Satya Nadella, January 2026 Energy scarcity Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2026 about the impact of AI on the global economy and the business world. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here: Quote of the day This article is part of TechRadar Pro's QOTD project to provide an insight into the minds of the brightest and most recognized figures in the technology industry today and in years gone
by. Read the full series here . In his remarks, Nadella acknowledged the tensions at the heart of the AI expansionism that has captured not only big tech but the vast majority of the corporate world.

For AI to continue growing at the pace it has been not just in terms of the compute required to train the models but also for inference as usage grows we'll need plenty of data centers to churn through tokens. And for these tokens to be created, the AI pioneers will need plenty of energy. You may
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electricity as AI companies plan on doing so for AI has caused alarm among
the public particularly as much of this has demanded infrastructure built close to populated areas in towns and cities.

Nadella acknowledged there has been a productivity gap between the hype
around AI and the meaningful impact on people's lives warning that without something to point to, unrest will bubble up and boil over into something
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As time passed, we're seeing more tensions rise as people and even legislators object to new data center projects due to concerns over the impact on the energy grid, the environmental damage , and local communities.



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