Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella Says ‘Everyone Is a Stakeholder’ in A.I.

Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, said on Wednesday that the backlash against artificial intelligence was evident across the United States, but that the technology would boost wages and that “everyone is a stakeholder” in A.I.

“You can’t deny that the perception is terrible,” Mr. Nadella, 58, said during a live interview in San Francisco with “Hard Fork,” The New York Times’s tech podcast. He acknowledged there might be job displacement because of A.I., but pointed to the technology’s power and benefits.

Mr. Nadella added that he was not opposed to people sharing in the wealth from A.I. companies. That idea was recently floated by Bernie Sanders, the progressive senator from Vermont, who has called A.I. a “public resource“ that Americans should have some ownership in. On Wednesday, President Trump also raised the notion for the second time in a week, saying Americans could get rich by sharing in the wealth from A.I. firms.

Mr. Nadella made his…