AI will solve humanity's toughest problems, not replace us: Larry Ellison

At Oracle AI World 2025, Larry Ellison said AI will augment humans, transform industries, and help solve complex challenges in science, healthcare, and environment.

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Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison has said that artificial intelligence (AI) would fundamentally reshape how humanity solves complex problems—from healthcare and infrastructure to agriculture and climate.

Delivering the keynote at the Oracle AI World 2025 in Las Vegas, he described AI as a network of “electronic brains” that augment people rather than replace them. He called it a force “more powerful than the Industrial Revolution.”

“The real opportunity is not just building these extraordinary electronic brains, but using them to solve humanity's most difficult problems,” Ellison said, outlining how Oracle is positioning its cloud and enterprise software stack to enable AI reasoning securely on both public and private data.

BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

Ellison compared the human brain's 20-watt power consumption with the 1.2-billion-watt energy demand of modern AI clusters to underline a simple truth: creating electronic brains requires industrial-scale digital infrastructure. The shift from neurons to GPUs, he said, has transformed computing into an engineering challenge that spans energy, cooling, and networking.

To meet this demand, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is being expanded into one of the world’s largest AI computing networks – including a new cluster in Abilene, Texas, that will eventually host more than 450,000 NVIDIA GPUs. The buildout integrates power generation, liquid cooling, and high-speed data links at a scale Ellison likened to “national infrastructure projects.”