The big super corporation’s trip to Silicon Valley is an AI wake-up call of a lifetime

The big super corporation’s trip to Silicon Valley is an AI wake-up call of a lifetime

By Jessica Gardner
Publication Date: 2026-03-15 05:00:00

new York | It was the warning words of Goldman Sachs Chairman David Solomon that hit Kelly Power. The CEO of Colonial First State, which manages $180 billion in savings, saw a lot of potential in artificial intelligence. Now – after a week-long pension summit in the USA – she also realizes how quickly everything is changing.

“I’m pretty paranoid now about how we’re going to deal with this,” she said at one of the discussions organized as part of the trip, this time on Friday in New York. “Like, what’s going on? How quickly (can we) act with urgency? We need to, you know, put 10 times more focus and attention on this.”

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