A conversation with OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella

Speakers

• Zanny Minton Beddoes

  Editor-in-chief

  Zanny Minton Beddoes is the editor-in-chief of The Economist. Prior to this role, she was The Economist’s economics editor, overseeing the newspaper’s global economics coverage. Ms Minton Beddoes has written extensively about international financial issues including enlargement of the European Union, the future of the International Monetary Fund and economic reform in emerging economies. She has published in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, contributed chapters to several conference volumes and, in 1997, edited “Emerging Asia”, a book on the future of emerging-markets in Asia, published by the Asian Development Bank. In May 1998 she testified before Congress on the introduction of the euro.
• Sam Altman

  Chief executive officer, OpenAI

  Sam Altman is the co-founder and chief executive of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL·E. Sam was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, Sam co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity. The company remains governed by the nonprofit and its original charter today.
• Satya Nadella

  Chief executive officer, Microsoft

  Satya Nadella is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft. Before being appointed in 2014, he held leadership roles across the company, which he joined in 1992. Originally from Hyderabad, India, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Mangalore University, a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Nadella serves on the board of trustees to his alma mater the University of Chicago, as well as the Starbucks board of directors.