05-01-2026 12:05 via eweek.com

Embrace AI as ‘Cognitive Amplifier’ Urges Microsoft CEO

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has declared the industry needs to abandon “slop vs sophistication” debates and embrace AI as humanity’s new “cognitive amplifier.”
In his brief “Looking Ahead to 2026” post, Nadella said, “We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication and develop a new equilibrium in terms of our ‘theory of the mind’ that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate
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