{"id":734834,"date":"2026-06-22T16:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nadella-we-cant-let-ai-giants-eat-the-economy\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:35:20","slug":"nadella-we-cant-let-ai-giants-eat-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nadella-we-cant-let-ai-giants-eat-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadella: we can&#8217;t let AI giants eat the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40955e45bd4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40955e45bd4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nadella-we-cant-let-ai-giants-eat-the-economy\/#Earning_the_publics_permission\" >Earning the public\u2019s permission<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nadella-we-cant-let-ai-giants-eat-the-economy\/#Microsofts_counter-pitch\" >Microsoft\u2019s counter-pitch<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nadella-we-cant-let-ai-giants-eat-the-economy\/#Not_the_only_one_rethinking\" >Not the only one rethinking<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<p><em>In a blunt interview, Satya Nadella warned that the AI giants cannot keep promising mass job losses while demanding the power to build whatever they want. Microsoft\u2019s answer: cheaper models, more control for customers, and a pitch for the public\u2019s trust.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Satya Nadella helped start the AI boom. Now he has a warning for the companies running it.<\/p>\n<p>In <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/microsofts-satya-nadella-we-cant-let-ai-giants-eat-the-economy-b9d33b9f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an interview with the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the Microsoft chief took aim at the AI giants. They cannot keep telling the world that AI will erase white-collar work, he argued. Meanwhile, they ask for limitless power to build as they please.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t say, hey, all white-collar jobs are gone and this could even be a weapon, and we will use all the power to build data centres,\u201d Nadella said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper latest channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<p class=\"channel-cta-title\">The \ud83d\udc9c of EU tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol&#8217; founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It&#8217;s free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He was pointing at OpenAI and Anthropic. The two labs build the most advanced proprietary models, and Microsoft now positions itself against them.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Earning_the_publics_permission\"><\/span>Earning the public\u2019s permission<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Nadella\u2019s core argument is about trust. AI cannot hollow out whole industries and still expect the public to wave it through.<\/p>\n<p>The public will not tolerate a few firms \u201cdoing all of the learning for the world,\u201d he said. \u201cIf all the value is accrued by only a few models, the political economy will simply not tolerate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no societal permission for an AI future that hollows out entire industries,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He reached for a historical parallel. The backlash could echo the anger that followed globalisation, when whole communities lost out and never forgave the people who had promised otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>That marks a pointed reversal of Big Tech\u2019s own warnings about dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earing jobs. Nadella thinks that pitch is not merely unpopular. He thinks it is politically unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p>He kept returning to one idea: agency. People need to feel they have economic opportunity, he said, not that a few firms get to decide their future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have to do the hard work in earning the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> permission,\u201d he said. Narrative alone, he added, will not cut it.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Microsofts_counter-pitch\"><\/span>Microsoft\u2019s counter-pitch<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The alternative he describes is less dramatic and more commercial. Nadella frames AI as a knowledge engine that helps companies use their own people and data.<\/p>\n<p>He calls it a \u201cfrontier ecosystem\u201d rather than a single \u201cfrontier model.\u201d Every organisation, he argues, should build its own \u201clearning loop\u201d from its private data and its own evaluations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing any of us want is a world where every company across every sector is ceding value to a few models that eat everything they see,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He frames the goal as a reorganisation of work, not its end. He wants \u201ca real cognitive loop between people and digital systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Customers should draw on a spectrum of models at different prices and abilities, he argued. The models should be \u201call hill-climbing inside of a machine you control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has started to back the talk with products. In recent weeks it rolled out a suite of low-cost models, aimed squarely at customers reeling from the sticker shock of soaring AI bills.<\/p>\n<p>It is also weighing whether to host a version of DeepSeek, the ultra-low-cost Chinese model that OpenAI and Anthropic accuse of copying their work.<\/p>\n<p>That move would send far more traffic to the Chinese model-maker. It would also pile pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic, which already face a prolonged price war.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Not_the_only_one_rethinking\"><\/span>Not the only one rethinking<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Other giants want to undercut the frontier labs too. Amazon has admitted its own models trail the leaders. It hopes to close the gap with cheaper options.<\/p>\n<p>The timing stings for the labs. Both OpenAI and Anthropic are marching toward blockbuster stock-market debuts, and both lean on the story that their models will remake the economy.<\/p>\n<p>There is self-interest in the warning, of course. Microsoft is itself one of the largest concentrations of AI power on Earth. It plans to spend a reported $190bn on data centres and capacity this year alone.<\/p>\n<p>It also remains OpenAI\u2019s biggest backer. Yet Microsoft gains either way if no single lab corners the market.<\/p>\n<p>His bet is that the next wave of AI rewards breadth over dominance. Whether OpenAI and Anthropic agree is another matter. They are still racing to build the biggest models in the world.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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