How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Companies Surf the Wave of Big Data

A.I. offers a precise navigational tool, he says, to find the right nuggets of data as more and more information pours into companies, a trend that's expected to accelerate with the widespread adoption of blur-fast 5G networks later this year. Handling data properly is critical because misusing it, or allowing it to be compromised, can badly damage a brand, he added. He spoke with Barron's Wednesday before delivering a speech on "Democratization of A.I." in San Francisco. Stine, who has been with AT&T nearly 40 years, won the newly created title of chief data officer a year ago. He's part of a wave of CDOs at Fortune 500 companies, where the position didn't exist a few years ago.