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Amnon Shashua

President & CEO, Mobileye Global

Search every verified Amnon Shashua interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Amnon Shashua, President and CEO of Mobileye, has been active in 2025 and 2026 discussing the company's progress in autonomous driving and its expansion into humanoid robotics. At the World Governments Summit in March 2026, Shashua discussed the scaling of autonomous systems and the safety and policy frameworks required. He stated that only one company, Waymo, has proven it can reach the necessary safety level for autonomous vehicles. In January 2026, Shashua announced Mobileye's acquisition of Mentee Robotics for $900 million, a company he founded four years prior to build humanoid robots. He said the acquisition fits Mobileye's push into "physical AI" and that the manufacturing cost of a humanoid robot in reasonable volume would be around $20,000, with a target for structured environment deployment starting in 2028. Shashua also noted that Mobileye had secured a 19 million-unit program with Volkswagen and an unnamed US automaker for a "surround ADAS" system. Shashua has also continued to comment on the broader state of AI. In a 2024 lecture, he described large language models as "knowledgeable idiots" that require constant supervision and argued that they cannot be fully aligned with human values, a conclusion he said his research had proven. He has stated that regulation may eventually need to limit the length of conversations between humans and machines. Shashua has expressed optimism about the potential for AI to solve difficult problems, but has also said that current generative AI is unlikely to produce a "great scientist" and that a breakthrough is needed to reach that level.

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“There's only one company on the planet that has done it, which is Whimo. All the rest, including ourselves, are very confident we'll be able to do it, but so far only one company has proven it can reach a safety level.”

“You cannot say it was a black box. You need to guarantee certain things — for example, that you'll not violate traffic laws. We know from language models they can hallucinate, and 5% of the time they can be very, very stupid.”

“This 9 million-unit program is 'surround ADAS'—combining front and parking cameras plus multiple radars to replace multiple ECUs and enable hands-free highway driving, and it's high volume; we have two customers in the past year, including Volkswagen and an unnamed US automaker totaling 19 million units. This is big.”

“This is called a related-party transaction and I recused myself from the decision; my son has a 0.00001% stake—he's just an employee, so it's not a big deal.”

“I believe regulation at some point will put limits on the length of conversation between humans and machines; starting to have a long interaction with a machine could be very dangerous.”

“A reasonable way to describe these machines is a "knowledgeable idiot." Compared to autonomous driving, we're at level two — you need constant human supervision and you cannot give these machines a problem and simply expect a verified correct solution.”

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