‘AI can solve problems, but humans…,’ says Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: Here’s why

Aravind Srinivas, CEO and co-founder of AI-powered search engine Perplexity, has reinforced the critical distinction between artificial intelligence (AI) as a powerful tool and human ingenuity as the driving force behind true innovation, asserting that AI’s strengths lie in execution while humans alone possess the curiosity to define meaningful problems.

In a wide-ranging conversation on the popular podcast hosted by writer and entrepreneur Prakhar Gupta, Srinivas dived into the philosophical and practical boundaries of current AI systems, arguing that genuine breakthroughs come from human-driven questions rather than autonomous machine discovery.