Why AI will dwarf every tech revolution before it: robots, manufacturing, AR glasses from CES 2026

Thanks for coming out, everybody. We're gonna have a great full contact, super hardcore discussion about the future, specifically around AI, which I think is the most important theme, not only of, CES twenty twenty six as we've seen with all the incredible gadgets, chips being launched, self driving, But it's gonna be the most important transformation of our lifetimes. I think everything we've seen over the last thirty years of technology from the PC revolution to cloud computing, to the Internet, mobile, all of that is gonna be dwarfed in comparison to the impact that AI is gonna have on society. If you're here at CES, you know that. You're here for that reason. And we've got two amazing guests who are gonna join us to have this debate. And, additionally, I've brought my box, a box filled with all the ghosts and gadgets of Christmas past, and we're gonna go through those, at the end of our discussion. But here's a quick video of our guests who will be joining me today. From boardrooms to the White House and beyond, McKinsey's influence in business is virtually unparalleled. It's one of the largest and most influential consulting firms in the world. Enterprise can move faster than any of us expected, which is good news because these problems aren't gonna be the problems of the next generation. They're gonna be the problems of our leadership generation. Making this system of government better on both efficiency and effectiveness is key for economic growth and for national defense. We also think that some of the private sector insights that we have brought to the public sector can drive innovation. Our next guest leads venture capital firm General Catalyst. With 40,000,000,000 in assets under management as of the year Our aspirations of venture capital is to be the best seed firm in the world. The decisions we're making, the companies we're building are gonna impact the world for centuries to come. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Bob Sternfels and Hemant Taneja. Alright. Gentlemen, welcome. Yeah. Alright, team. Let's do it. Let's do it. So we're here at CES twenty twenty six. It's really interesting to watch this conference get this new life breathed into it. We had this period during COVID when CES obviously had to take a pause, And we were wondering in Silicon Valley, hey. Is anybody gonna show up at CES? Is it still relevant? Do people care? And now look at this. This is one of the largest ones ever, and everybody's here. I saw Lisa from AMD, Jensen from NVIDIA, Uber, Neuro, Waymo. The change is amazing. I think maybe to start, you spent a career at McKinsey trying to accelerate change, and in venture capital, Hemant, you know, literally building these businesses from the seed stage on. How do you look at the pace of innovation and change in this past two years since ChatGPT was launched compared to the first thirty years of our careers were …