Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI skills of an effective customer support representative map to those needed for much higher-paid enterprise sales roles. Several of the not-for-profits I’m involved with have AI at their core and will be amplified by the coming wave of AI in ways both large and small. This includes the Earth Species Project (which uses the latest advances in AI to advance our under- standing of animal communication), Transformations of the Human (which brings philosophers and artists to join the con- versation around the future of AI), and Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI). Even New America, a classic think tank on whose board I serve, has made AI a major area of study. AI will transform our society, so it’s critical that we have a broad and diverse array of organizations and individuals working together to make this transformation as positive as possible. Investing in AI At this point, it should come as no surprise that AI has been a major focus of my investing activities. I predict that before the end of the decade, we will see dozens of eleven-figure exits (companies that are acquired for or IPO at a valuation of more than $10 billion), and, as an investor at Greylock Partners, I have backed many companies that use AI to power break- through products. These investments fall into two major categories. The products that amplify human work use AI to make individ- ual professionals more effective and productive. These include: ● Tome is a powerful storytelling tool that can generate a visual story from the words you provide. Not only will this help anyone who has ever had to assemble a slide deck, 150

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