Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work
Waymo drives 4 million fully autonomous miles weekly across 15 US cities with superhuman safety
“when you're dealing with atoms instead of bits, breaking things is not really okay”
Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov outlines seven lessons from two decades of deploying physical AI at scale, with Waymo now logging 4 million fully autonomous miles per week across 15 US cities. He reframes Silicon Valley's 'move fast and break things' ethos to 'move fast and ship safely' as the governing principle for AI operating in the physical world. The talk argues the benchmark for successful physical AI is invisibility — the best outcome is that nothing seems to happen, the task just completes safely.