Quote of the day by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: ‘We have to do something useful with AI, or we’ll quickly lose social permission’ — challenging AI pioneers to step up their game

Quote of the day by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: ‘We have to do something useful with AI, or we’ll quickly lose social permission’ — challenging AI pioneers to step up their game

By https://www.techradar.com/author/keumars-afifi-sabet
Publication Date: 2026-10-25 23:00:00



As the AI buildout continues and models improve from generation to generation, fears persist over how useful this technology will actually be in practice and whether AI will reach a ceiling before it makes a meaningful impact.

Although roles and responsibilities, and jobs, are being replaced in the name of AI, does that mean it’s changing things for the better?


“We as a global community have to get to a point where we’re using this to do something useful… Otherwise, I don’t think this makes much sense… In fact, I’ll say we’ll quickly lose even the social permission to actually take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens.”


Energy scarcity