YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on Platform Dominance, Kids, Trump's Account, and AI Slop

New York Times writer Lulu Garcia-Navarro sat down with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan for a wide-ranging interview covering the platform's dominant position in online video, its impact on children and young users, the suspension and subsequent reinstatement of Donald Trump's YouTube account, and the growing problem of AI-generated low-quality content, known as slop, flooding the platform. Mohan's comments on AI slop are particularly timely: YouTube, like every major content platform, is wrestling with the speed at which AI tools can generate and upload low-quality video at scale, threatening to dilute the platform's signal-to-noise ratio. His remarks on Trump's account reinstatement reflect the ongoing tension between platform safety standards and political pressure. The interview provides a rare extended look at how the CEO of one of the world's most-used media platforms is navigating the intersection of AI, regulation, and political content at scale.