On stage at the Ai4 conference: (from left to right) Fei-Fei Li; Geoffrey Hinton; panel moderator Yun-Hee Kim, Deputy Editor at Washington Post Intelligence; and Andrew Ng. Data center developers, utilities, and infrastructure investors are committing unprecedented capital to AI, betting that demand will continue to climb for years. “If AI can do routine intellectual labor, any job that consists mainly of routine intellectual labor is going to be done by AI,” Hinton said. Related:IDCA CEO Calls for Global Consensus on Data Center DevelopmentLi urges sector-specific policy updates over sweeping AI rules, focusing on deployment. Ng countered that open-weight models are essential to innovation, competition, and broader access to AI technology.