Bob Iger
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AI is going to give us the ability to provide users of Disney+,
with a much more engaged experience, including the ability for them to create user-generated content.
In a world that changes as much as it does, that in some form or another, trying to preserve the status quo is a mistake.
And I'm certain that my successor will not do that.
So they'll be handed, I think, a good hand in terms of the strength of the company, a number of opportunities to grow.
I think we have a great hand.
I don't really feel that we have a need to buy more IP.
We're just going to continue to create our own.
And we've got an unbelievable bedrock of stories already told to grow from.
I think we have a great hand.
I don't really feel satisfied.
that we have a need to
buy more IP.
We're just going to continue to create our own, and we've got an unbelievable bedrock of stories already told to grow from.
We are now joined by Disney CEO Bob Iger, along with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
OpenAI is both respecting and valuing our creativity, both our characters, but also those that have created those characters.
So it gives us an opportunity really to play a part in what is really a breathtaking growth in essentially AI and new forms of media and entertainment.
Yes, I think about this often, actually.
And I think because of the company's place in the world,
I think the person running the company has a special responsibility of sorts to maintain Disney's position in the world as a beloved company, as an admired company, as a company that entertains really the world, everyone of all ages and from all different walks of life.