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Paul Daugherty

Senior Technology Advisor to Accenture, Accenture

Search every verified Paul Daugherty interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Accenture, recently delivered a sermon at Victory Church titled "Trusting God Beyond the Map" on August 2, 2026. In the sermon, he discussed the limitations of relying on maps and technology, drawing on a personal hiking experience to an area without map coverage. He encouraged the congregation to trust God's guidance over convenience, stating, "I don't want to just chat GPT my way through life. I don't want to just Amazon Prime get the convenient way of arriving fast at a destination. I want to see what God has for me because it's about the climb. It's about the journey." Daugherty also reflected on navigating uncertainty, referencing the year 2020, and said, "I didn't have a map for 2020. Nobody had a map, but I had a voice." He emphasized the importance of listening to God's voice over other influences, describing fear as whispering worst-case scenarios while faith, trust, hope, and belief represent God's guidance. The sermon included a prayer for the congregation to remain attuned to God's direction.

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Notable quotes

“Generative AI won't put job X out of work — for example, it won't put software engineers out of work — but a software engineer who doesn't know generative AI will not get a job.”

“As a result, amazing news: three different nuclear power plants in the United States that had been mothballed are being restarted just to power AI data centers.”

“Every year we have to add three billion of revenue in profitable revenue; in essence we have to add 100,000 people every year with new skills, which is equivalent to three unicorns of revenue.”

“If you look at what's going to happen to the insurance business as you have more autonomous vehicles, the CEO of Volvo came out recently and said when they introduced their self-driving cars in several years their autonomous vehicles they're going to self-insure as a way to get their purchasers and passengers of the self-driving cars more comfortable.”

“But to use those models, it's the inference costs that you as a customer pay, those costs are very expensive for the largest models are measured in the tokens you submit or the input you give and things like that.”

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