When Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI and Data, was an intern at Amazon in 2005, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, was his first manager. Nineteen years later, the two shared a stage at the VivaTech Conference to reflect on Amazon’s history of innovation—from pioneering the pay-as-you-go model with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to transforming customer experiences using “good old-fashioned AI”—as well as what really keeps them up at night in the age of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI). Asked if competitors ever kept him up at night, Dr. Werner insisted that listening to customer needs—such as guardrails, security, and privacy—and building products based on those needs is what drives success at Amazon. Dr. Swami said he viewed Amazon…