CEOs must lean in despite noisy AI takeoff


Gonzalo Gortazar, CEO of CaixaBank SA, sums up the mood in the C-suite: “Generative AI models surprise, impress and scare us, all at the same time.” — Bloomberg

CHIEF executive officers (CEOs) keep getting new jobs piled onto their shoulders. The economic rise of China since the 1980s meant that they had to become Sinologists.

The twin populist shocks of Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidential ascension meant that they had to think about the capitalist system’s legitimacy.

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