Gazing Into Technology's Crystal Ball

Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi joins the who's who of leaders exploring AI, regulation, the future workforce and other tech trends Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi was among several dozen Fortune 500 leaders, tech entrepreneurs and investors who recently attended Fortune Brainstorm Tech, an invitation-only conference for exploring bleeding-edge trends. At this year's event in Aspen, Colorado, July 15 – 17, topics ranged from artificial intelligence (AI), to the intersection of policy and tech, to U.S. competitiveness versus China and the rest of the world, and more. AI was a major theme this year. Discussions abounded on the ethics and moral obligations facing the industry to ensure that AI technology develops for good. In a panel titled "How to Control AI (Before It Controls Us)," Salesforce's chief scientist and IBM's SVP of cloud/cognitive software addressed the issue of what companies must do to harness the potential of AI without harming their customers.