Brian Chesky

American businessman & Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb

  1. We use words like superintelligence. Superintelligence sounds like an alien species. The average person does not want an alien species smarter than them. I think the average person feels like AI is happening to them, not for them.
    Brian Chesky · Squawk Pod · AI Agents with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky & Walter Isaacson 10/1/26 · 2026-10-01
  2. I think the real work is not happening in front of a bunch of photographers at the White House.
    Brian Chesky · Squawk Pod · AI Agents with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky & Walter Isaacson 10/1/26 · 2026-10-01
  3. I am extremely bullish that ultimately AI's gonna create a lot more jobs than it destroys. My concern is that there will be this valley where maybe a lot of jobs will be destroyed before the new jobs are created.
    Brian Chesky · Squawk Pod · AI Agents with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky & Walter Isaacson 10/1/26 · 2026-10-01