153. Former Alexa Head on Amazon, AI, Tech Monopolies and Future of Voice Computing | Alex Spinelli

Alex Spinelli (@liveperson) is an AI expert, the former head of Alexa OS for Amazon and current CTO of LivePerson and Maven, an AI-powered conversational commerce company, helping brands like Delta, HSBC, and Home Depot leverage AI bots

Before joining Amazon, Alex served as CTO of McCann Worldgroup — one of the world’s largest marketing organizations with 24,000 employees across more than 100 countries — and CTO for North America and Asia-Pacific at AXA Technologies, where he built large-scale grid computing for predictive modeling. At Thomson Reuters, he oversaw product and technology for news and media, including real-time, AI-driven news curation for financial professionals. He has also held executive technology leadership positions at TheStreet.com and MTV Networks as CTO of Comedy Central.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* How Alex and his team built Alexa into a juggernaut

* What the future of voice computing holds

* Why Alex is more worried about Facebook and Google than Amazon

* What automation will do to jobs and the economy

* How Amazon wins in the markets they attack and why Alex says they aren't a monopoly

* The issue with IoT and huge security risks

* Why educating consumers/citizens is the MOST important

* Is privacy dead and what do we do about it?

* What do we do about big tech and regulation

* Why Alex is worried about privacy and data transparency

* Thoughts on corporate responsibility

* When will we have a post-money world

* What's the status of autonomous vehicles in 10 years

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