At one point, Satya talked about AI and where it was going, and he pointed to its ability to translate languages. When he said that AI would soon replace human interpreters, he paused for a moment, realized what he had said, and turned to the interpreter. “Sorry,” he said. The interpreter didn’t skip a beat. “Don’t worry,” she calmly replied. “Someone from IBM told me the same thing twenty years ago, and I’m still here.”