Dan Shipper is the CEO and cofounder of Every. Every week he explores the frontiers of AI in his column, Chain of Thought, and on his podcast, ‘AI & I.’
Transcript: 'How Box Is Building an AI-first Company—Without Cutting Jobs'
'AI & I' with Box CEO Aaron Levie
Oct 8, 2025 · 40 min readUpdated Feb 1, 2026
The transcript of AI & I with Aaron Levie is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Timestamps
- Introduction: 00:01:30
- Why AI won’t take your job: 00:02:36
- Jevons paradox and the future of work: 00:06:42
- How Aaron’s experience with the cloud era shapes his view of AI: 00:10:40
- Why every knowledge worker is becoming a manager of AI agents: 00:19:44
- What Aaron’s learned from bringing AI into every corner of Box: 00:25:21
- What’s overhyped in AI today: 00:33:57
- How Aaron balances everyday execution with innovation: 00:43:31
Transcript
(00:00:00)
Dan Shipper
Aaron, welcome to the show.
Aaron Levie
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