Quick take on AI moments at the 2025 Paley International Council Summit: Global Media Unbound: The Future of Innovation, held in Silicon Valley.

Attending the Paley Council Summit, on the slopes of Sand Hill Road, afforded BIML’s Katie McMahon the chance to hear Media, Entertainment, Sports, and Tech titans share insights on how they view AI/ML impact in their industries.

The overwhelming theme tended towards safe and self-assuring platitudes of the form, “humans will always be the lead for creative endeavors. Who else would come up with the spirited idea of a walking lighthouse?” One hopes this happy human thought remains true.

In our view, an important highlight of the conference was the conversation between Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, and Tim Higgins, Business Columnist from The Wall Street Journal, who drove a probing interview. On the topic of Superintelligence, Mustafa provided a clear position of “conscious design intent” versus building for the sake of building. AI should be developed for the “purpose to serve the human” and constructed in the vein of “humanist technology.” See video clip here:

Katie had a quick chat with Mustafa following his stage appearance. She asked him if he was concerned about BIML’s top rated LLM risk, Recursive Pollution. After a pause of surprise and a “that’s an excellent question…’” he gathered a quick response: his lab is “working on it and thinks it’s solvable.” Well, that’s a relief. While they are at it maybe they can help us determine how to clean all the plastic out of the ocean too—a problem of the same order of difficulty.