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Published · transcript-backedJeetu Patel: belief
26 Feb 2026 Lenny's Podcast AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu Patel
“The older I get, the more I believe that we are actually in a simulation. The first time I heard that concept, I thought it was such an absurd concept.”
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- Jeetu Patel
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- belief
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- 26 Feb 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Something I was going to say during my chat with Marc and when he talked about that AI is basically coming just in time to save us, because there aren't going to be enough people to do the jobs. In my head I was thinking, "This is like another signal that we are in a simulation that things are working out just right for us." What are the chances? The older I get, the more I believe that we are actually in a simulation. The first time I heard that concept, I thought it was such an absurd concept. Now I'm like, "This might actually be happening." You never know. Following this thread, a lot of companies are trying to adjust to this new world. You are doing an incredible job at actually doing this. We got connected through Kevin Weil, who is former CPO at OpenAI, now head of science at OpenAI. And the way he described it is the work that you have done to turn Cisco the way he described it from an older, slower, more traditional enterprise to a very AI-forward company. How many employees do you guys have? You said 45,000.…
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