Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Bill Hilf (linkedin.com/in/bill-h-b554/) has spent decades enterprise tech, open-source technologies, and AI, from IBM and Microsoft to running Paul Allen's portfolio as the CEO of Vulcan. He now chairs the Allen Institute for AI (allenai.org/) and American Prairie (americanprairie.org/) . His debut sci-fi novel, "The Disruption," (amazon.com/Disruption-Cycle-W-H-Hilf/dp/B0GD2NCLYW) imagines AI gone very wrong, and implicitly challenges the industry to think differently about how it's building our real future today.


With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. Edited by Curt Milton.


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