Microsoft's Copilot chief says this is the AI future he worries about most

Jacob Andreou, Microsoft's executive vice president of Copilot. Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch The tech industry has been debating the existential risks of artificial intelligence. Microsoft's biggest concern is whether AI's benefits will be shared broadly, its Copilot boss says. Microsoft has increasingly adopted "diffusion" as a central theme in its public AI messaging. As the technology industry debates the existential risks of artificial intelligence , Microsoft 's Copilot boss says the biggest concern is making sure the technology's benefits spread broadly rather than consolidating into a handful of companies. Jacob Andreou, Microsoft's executive vice president of Copilot , told Business Insider in an interview the AI risk that Microsoft spends most of its time thinking about is what it calls "diffusion," or making AI widely available to people and businesses throughout the economy.