At a TIME roundtable in Davos, Switzerland on January 22, business leaders and AI experts examined the opportunities and challenges presented by artificial intelligence. The TIME100 Talks event, “Go Beyond the Transformative Power of AI,” explored AI’s potential to improve healthcare and address climate change, while also acknowledging the inherent risks of its rapid advancement.
Participants included musician will.i.am (also founder and CEO of ); (full professor at the Université de Montréal and founder and scientific director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute); (director and co-founder of The Centre for Humane Technology); Ravi Kumar S (CEO of Cognizant, the event sponsor); Lucian Boldea (president and CEO of industrial automation at Honeywell); Graham Kerr (CEO of South32); Jayee Koffey (global head of enterprise execution and chief corporate affairs officer at BNY); Kathrin Renz (vice president of AWS Industries); Chris Foster (CEO of Omnicom Public Relations Group); Madeleine Ballard (CEO of Community HealthImpact Coalition); Surya Gummadi (executive vice president at Cognizant and president of Cognizant Americas); James Landay (co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI); Janey Whiteside (partner and chief growth officer, Consello); Wendy Clark (partner and president of Consello); Angela Baker (chief sustainability officer at Qualcomm); and Adam Evans (Executive Vice President and general manager at Salesforce AI). (Salesforce chair and CEO Marc Benioff owns TIME.)
TIME interviewed several attendees to gain further insight into their perspectives on the technology. For more, please visit [link removed].
TIME100 Talks—Go Beyond: The Transformative Power of AI was sponsored by Cognizant.