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At WIRED’s AI Power Summit on Monday, industry executives and officials discussed the impact artificial intelligence is having on every corner of society—and where it goes from here.

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Tom Johnson's career took him from the White House to newspaper publisher jobs in Dallas and Los Angeles to president of CNN.

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