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YouTube CEO Neal Mohan: Why We're Betting On AI And Not Afraid Of It

Big Technology Podcast

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Neal Mohan is the CEO of YouTube. Mohan joins Big Technology to discuss how AI is reshaping what we watch and create on the world’s largest video platform. Tune in to hear how much creative control should go to algorithms, how YouTube plans to handle AI sl...

Highlights

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan explains how AI is reshaping creation, discovery, recommendations, and the business of online video while keeping creators and viewers at the center.
04:58
AI is entering programming decisions
09:04
AI should empower creators, not replace them
11:59
The audience is the real decision-maker
16:57
YouTube’s strength is its full spectrum of interests
25:46
Quality matters more than whether AI was used
30:58
YouTube’s North Star is the best possible experience
38:38
YouTube must be worth the viewer's time
41:29
YouTube and DeepMind collaborate every day
48:33
Conversational search can build richer answers
57:06
YouTube is the creators’ home
1:02:14
YouTube is a technology company at its core

Chapters

YouTube’s scale and AI-powered creator infrastructure
00:00
Human creativity, audience choice, and YouTube’s open platform
08:22
AI quality, creative responsibility, and the competition for attention
23:42
Google DeepMind, Ask, and video-centered conversational search
36:33
Discovery, live programming, and the creator ecosystem
51:29

Transcript

Alex Kantrowitz: How much should AI decide what you watch on YouTube and determine what people like me create? Let's talk about it with YouTube CEO Neil Mohan right after this. This episode is brought to you by Genesis. What does it actually take to put ag...