Should AI Slow Down? A Conversation with Rene Haas, CEO of ARM

So one of the things I admire about your career, and I think that how you were raised now explains a lot of it.

And that's your ability to go into different cultures and be pretty comfortable and not I mean, really integrate and and feel comfortable.

So, you know, when we first had our first conversation, we sort of bonded over our views on China.

our experiences there so you know you've been you know obviously very involved in US organizations British Japanese Chinese so tell me what your experiences are with those different cultures and sort of what are the pros and cons and the pros meaning what can we learn from those other cultures and maybe what to avoid in those how that those other cultures do business

Yeah, that's a big question.

I was very fortunate in, again, having grown up in a family where neither parent was born in this country, and both parents were born in different countries, and both had different religious upbringings.

And you had mentioned something earlier that the visitors to the house must have been pretty eclectic, and they were.

portuguese hungarian czech austrian british so uh had a lot of travel my dad because he was a researcher had a lot of experiences where he would deliver papers in stockholm or in copenhagen or in london and he drug us along right so we we we saw a lot of the world or i saw a lot of world when i was a little kid uh and it just helped me i think have an appreciation for everything's different and you have to appreciate that people's views are shaped by the environments that they grew up in.

And particularly when I was growing up, the world was very, was much smaller from the standpoint of now with the internet and social media and whatever it is, you can learn a lot about China.

You can learn a lot about Europe and just by access to Instagram or TikTok.

Back then you had to go there.

And you really realize that there's not a right or wrong way.

It's just, a different way.

And if you look at history, tribes have existed for centuries and centuries.

And there are spats between the Koreans and the Japanese, and there are spats between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and there are spats between the Scots and the English.

It's a little bit of people are people.

You get them kind of too close into their space, and they have different beliefs, and they're going to have friction.

That's kind of the nature of how the world has been.

I recognize that and I appreciate that.

So when I think about dealing with different cultures and different backgrounds, and we have it here at Arm where we are a British company, a lot of my leadership team are Americans.

Americans and British, we speak the same language.

We are pretty different people in terms of how we express opinions, how open we are to confrontation.

And I lived in the UK for a number of years.

So when we get the groups together, and the Americans are, let's fight it out, let's hash this out, let's argue in the room, and the British are a little bit like, I'm not that wildly comfortable about having this discussion in a public forum, you need to find a balance.

It's not a right or a wrong.