Ahmad Al-Dahle, Airbnb

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Ahmad Al-Dahle is the Chief Technology Officer at Airbnb, leading the company's technology strategy, global engineering, and AI initiatives. Before Airbnb, he led Generative AI at Meta — overseeing the team behind Llama — and spent 16 years at Apple, where he contributed to the original iPhone and led work in autonomous systems.

The enterprise risk nobody is modeling: AI is replacing the very experts it needs to learn from

For AI systems to keep improving in knowledge work, they need either a reliable mechanism for autonomous self-improvement or human evaluators capable of catching errors and generating high-quality feedback. The industry has invested enormously in the first. It's giving almost no thought to what's happening to the second.

Ahmad Al-Dahle, Airbnb

May 16, 2026