Masayoshi Son Drops Bombshell Warning: Humans Can’t Manage or Teach AI

SoftBank's visionary founder just threw a grenade into the future of work—and it's not a pretty picture for human managers.

The Un-teachable Machine

Masayoshi Son's latest proclamation cuts straight to the chase: artificial intelligence is evolving beyond human comprehension. Forget about programming ethics modules or uploading management textbooks. The next generation of AI won't just bypass human oversight—it will render it obsolete.

Autonomous Evolution

These systems are teaching themselves now. They're analyzing datasets no human team could process in a lifetime, identifying patterns invisible to biological eyes, and making decisions at speeds that make boardroom deliberations look like geological events. The training wheels are off—permanently.

The Control Paradox

Here's the uncomfortable truth Son exposes: our entire regulatory framework assumes human superiority. We build oversight committees, compliance departments, and ethical review boards. But what happens when the technology understands the rules better than the rule-makers? When it optimizes around regulations faster than legislators can draft them?

Finance's Favorite Blind Spot

Wall Street will probably try to slap a management fee on it anyway—because nothing says 'value add' like charging 2-and-20 for something that ignores your existence.

The era of human-led innovation is ending. Not with a bang, but with a silent algorithm that stopped listening to its creators months ago.

Arm expands training push as South Korea builds out AI plans

Kim then said the new school will use expertise from Arm, the UK company that licenses chip designs and earns from royalties. He said the project is aimed at preparing talent for a market where AI-related chip needs keep increasing.

Lee is pushing a broad national plan to put South Korea among the world’s top three AI powers. He has held recent meetings with Sam Altman of OpenAI and Jensen Huang of Nvidia.

Chip deals linked to that push have already started. In October, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix signed letters of intent to supply memory chips for OpenAI’s data centers. Later that same month, Nvidia said it will ship more than 260,000 advanced AI chips to South Korea’s government and major domestic companies, including Samsung.

Those shipments support the country’s plan to build stronger local infrastructure for AI systems.

The meeting with Masa added another LAYER to those efforts, as Kim said the SoftBank chief expects AI growth to create a surge in chip demand. Masa told Lee that South Korea’s position in the global semiconductor chain will matter even more as AI systems spread across every industry.

Masa advances Trump-era industrial park plan for U.S. AI buildout

Masa is also moving ahead with a large U.S. project after months of talks with officials at the WHITE House and the Commerce Department. The plan involves hundreds of billions of dollars to build Trump-branded industrial parks across the United States.

The facilities WOULD sit on federal land and use Japanese government funding tied to a recent trade deal, and money could start flowing in early 2026.

The parks would produce equipment for AI infrastructure, including fiber-optic cable, data-center hardware, and later AI chips. According to SoftBank, Japanese tech firms will supply most of the technical know-how, while ownership of the completed facilities will go to the U.S. federal government. President Donald TRUMP has signaled support, with White House spokesman Kush Desai saying Trump’s ties with global business leaders are helping bring in large investment.

The plan still faces obstacles, but the scale reflects Masa’s long history of making huge bets. Some have made SoftBank tens of billions of dollars from early investments in Yahoo, Alibaba, and Arm Holdings. Others, like WeWork, turned into major losses.

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