Data’s destiny: Microsoft and Snowflake vet Bob Muglia on AI and humanity

“Now, data of every type is recording society in a way that has a permanence attached to it, and these intelligent entities that we can create in the future will learn from all of this. … It’s a little scary, for sure, but it’s pretty exciting.”

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: the origins of data, and the future of the digital species. Our guest is business and tech leader Bob Muglia (quoted and pictured above), a startup investor and advisor who played a pivotal role at Microsoft as a leader of the company’s database and server products, before becoming CEO of data warehouse company Snowflake Computing.

Muglia is the author, with Steve Hamm, of a new book titled "The Datapreneurs: The Promise of AI and the Creators Building Our Future."

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