AMD CEO Lisa Su Tells Graduates That AI Won’t Decide The Future—People Will
AMD CEO Lisa Su Tells Graduates That AI Won’t Decide The Future—People Will
Publish Date: 2026-05-29 11:23:00
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Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), delivers commencement speech to 2026 MIT graduates.
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At a time when many graduates are worried that artificial intelligence could short circuit their careers, Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su offered a bigger-picture perspective about the role and responsibilities humans will still play despite technological advancements.
In a recent MIT commencement speech, the tech CEO told graduates: “For everything that AI can do, AI can’t decide which problems are worth solving. It can’t make the hard judgments when the data is not there. It can’t take responsibility for the outcomes. These are actually our responsibilities and they matter now more than ever.”
Su, who is ranked No. 10 on Forbes’ list of the World’s Most Powerful Women, recounted the recent technology shifts. “Over the last few decades, we’ve experienced several major technology shifts. The internet changed how we communicate. Mobile computing changed how we live. Cloud computing changed how we work. And now, we’re at the beginning of the AI wave.”
But, she added, unlike the technology shifts of the past, AI “has the potential to accelerate discovery in every field and help us solve problems that we’ve never been able to solve before.”
Nevertheless, she added, she wants to make one thing clear: “Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like—the best people do.”
As an MIT graduate who earned her bachelor, masters, and doctorate degree from the university, Su emphasized that the world does not need more people who simply know how to use AI. Rather, it needs people who know what to use it for in order to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.
“People with a sense of purpose, judgment, courage,” she said. “People who look at a hard problem and say, ‘I know this is really, really important and we can figure this out.’”
Since stepping into her CEO role in 2014, Su has been credited with leading…
