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Héctor López Romero: From Agents to Equity

Posted by World Summit AI on Sep 10, 2025 4:52:59 PM

Ahead of World Summit AI 2025 (October 08–09, Amsterdam), Héctor López Romero asks us to see AI differently: not as a replacement for human work, but as a personal coach, raising our standards and sharpening how we think, learn, and create.

What’s your most compelling dream scenario for AI — a breakthrough that would fundamentally improve life on a global scale?

Letting AI supporting our jobs to be better, reasonable productive and efficient.

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Max Welling: Will AI Save Us—or Break Us?

Posted by World Summit AI on Sep 10, 2025 4:52:31 PM

Ahead of World Summit AI 2025 (October 08–09, Amsterdam), Max Welling, Professor at the University of Amsterdam and CTO & Co-Founder of CuspAI, is driven by one of the most urgent questions of our time: can AI help us design the materials that will save the planet? From carbon capture to miracle batteries, Welling believes the answers may be closer than we think — if we dare to push AI beyond chatbots and into the frontier of science itself.

What’s your most compelling dream scenario for AI — a breakthrough that would fundamentally improve life on a global scale?

The planet has warmed more quickly in my lifetime than in any other 50-year span in the last 2,000 years. We urgently need scalable solutions to combat climate change - and I don’t believe we can get there without help from AI.
 
Cracking the carbon capture challenge using AI could be huge. It’s a tough nut: high upfront costs and huge energy demands mean it’s not viable at scale yet. Some estimates put the cost at $800 per ton of CO₂ removed. But if AI can help us identify better materials, we can make meaningful headway.
 
That’s just one example. From more efficient batteries to smarter semiconductors, thankfully there’s real potential for AI to push forward climate breakthroughs.
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Dreaming Beyond Data: Frank Herrman on AI’s Next Leap

Posted by World Summit AI on Sep 10, 2025 4:51:32 PM

What if AI could become not just a tool, but a scientific partner — capable of tackling humanity’s biggest crises faster than ever before? Ahead of World Summit AI 2025 (October 08–09, Amsterdam), Frank Herrman, Investment Manager at RVO, dares to imagine that future while keeping a sharp eye on the risks that could undo it all.

What’s your most compelling dream scenario for AI — a breakthrough that would fundamentally improve life on a global scale?

The world is facing enormous challenges: climate change, energy access, healthcare and prevention, and geopolitical instability. Right now, AI often makes these problems worse. Social media algorithms fuel division and hatred, while generative AI consumes vast amounts of energy without helping the climate crisis.
 
But there is another side. AI is already proving valuable in areas like drug development and medical diagnostics. If we can develop AI that not only analyzes data but is also capable of conducting its own scientific research, by generating hypotheses, running simulations, validating results, and improving its models, then it could accelerate solutions to humanity’s toughest problems.
 
My dream scenario is that such an AI could help solve climate change, healthcare, energy and other challenges in record time, giving us tools for a more sustainable and stable future.
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Michael van Lier: What Happens When AI Becomes Humanity’s Catalyst?

Posted by World Summit AI on Sep 10, 2025 4:50:44 PM

On one horizon: super intelligent partners helping us cure disease and rebuild the planet. On the other: a future where only the ultra-rich hold the keys to intelligence itself.  Ahead of World Summit AI 2025 (October 08–09, Amsterdam), Michael van Lier is asking which world we’ll choose—and how soon that choice will matter.

What’s your most compelling dream scenario for AI — a breakthrough that would fundamentally improve life on a global scale?

My dream scenario is reaching artificial general intelligence and eventually superintelligence, not as an endpoint but as a catalyst. Imagine science and robotics advancing at an ultra level — curing diseases, reversing climate damage, exploring space — because we’ve created minds that can collaborate with us at the edge of the unknown. It’s about unlocking discoveries that humanity alone might take centuries to reach.

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Jon McLoone on Democratising AI

Posted by World Summit AI on Sep 10, 2025 4:50:12 PM

Jon McLoone believes AI’s real breakthrough won’t just be smarter systems, but broader access. Ahead of World Summit AI 2025 (October 8–9, Amsterdam), Jon shares why the future depends on trusted sources, human creativity, and a balance between innovation and wisdom.

What’s your most compelling dream scenario for AI — a breakthrough that would fundamentally improve life on a global scale?

Make everyone builders of technology not just the elite who can code.
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Barbara Cresti on Healthier Futures with AI

Posted by World Summit AI on Sep 10, 2025 4:44:16 PM

What if AI could make prevention, not treatment, the foundation of global healthcare? At World Summit AI 2025  (October 08–09, Amsterdam), Barbara Cresti shares a vision where AI accelerates discovery in life sciences, empowers small businesses, and forces us to confront the hidden costs of the AI era.

What’s your most compelling dream scenario for AI — a breakthrough that would fundamentally improve life on a global scale?

My most compelling dream scenario for AI is an AI-driven leap in life sciences that enables truly preventive medicine for everyone, everywhere — targeting the diseases responsible for most global deaths and long-term illness.
 
I imagine AI models accelerating the discovery of ultra-low-cost diagnostics and preventive treatments, by decoding the earliest biological markers of cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory illness, and diabetes — often years before symptoms emerge. AI could model complex interactions between genetics, environment, and lifestyle across vast, diverse populations, revealing prevention pathways we cannot yet see.
 
This would lead to affordable vaccines, precision nutrition interventions, and simple, scalable therapeutics designed for low-resource settings, ensuring that prevention is not a privilege of wealthier nations but a standard of care worldwide.
 
Such a breakthrough could shift the trajectory of global health — reducing the burden on healthcare systems, extending healthy lifespans, and preventing millions of avoidable deaths each year.
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The Impact of AI in the Financial Sector

Posted by World Summit AI on Aug 7, 2025 6:41:51 PM

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly propelling the financial sector into a new era, moving beyond incremental advancements to enable fundamental, strategic reinvention. For executives, AI developers, regulators, and industry strategists, understanding AI’s pervasive impact is rapidly becoming a prerequisite for effective leadership, innovation, and risk management in finance. 

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Impact 50 Women. Change 50 Futures

Posted by World Summit AI on Jul 30, 2025 2:06:42 PM

A Call for Internships from the Asian University for Women - 50 Women, 50 Futures.

At InspiredMinds, we believe that technology and human resilience go hand in hand. That belief is never clearer than in our ongoing partnership with the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Bangladesh, a formidable institution dedicated to educating women from some of the world’s most fragile and conflict-affected regions.

Over the past five years, we have supported AUW: helping secure internships for over 300 students, assisting in emergency evacuations, and guiding buses of young Afghan women to safety during the fall of Kabul in 2021. These women have shown extraordinary courage. Now, they need our community's help.

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Global AI Governance in 2025

Posted by World Summit AI on Jul 30, 2025 12:02:48 PM

A Shifting Landscape of Law, Strategy, and Standards

As Artificial Intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in the fabric of society, governments worldwide are racing to create robust governance frameworks that ensure safety, accountability, and innovation. In 2025, the legal and regulatory environment for AI is evolving rapidly, with key developments in major regions signalling a new era of strategic alignment, competition, and complexity.

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Zarinah Agnew: Building Collective Intelligence for a Future We Can All Survive

Posted by World Summit AI on Jun 15, 2025 9:25:03 PM

Zarinah Agnew wants more than smarter systems—she wants a smarter species. As Research Director at the Collective Intelligence Project, she’s exploring how Artificial Intelligence can strengthen, not splinter, our ability to coordinate, communicate and coexist. Ahead of World Summit AI USA 2025 (June 18–19, San Francisco), she shares why human-AI collaboration must focus on healing divides, not deepening them—and why our biggest upgrade might not be technical, but social.

What’s your most compelling dream scenario for AI — a breakthrough that would fundamentally improve life on a global scale?

I want to see AI solve some of the problems that humans have failed on, I want to see human-AI collaboration forge a future of human and non-human flourishing, to help us transition our economic system to one that serves life, to improve our collective decision making and coordination so that we can face both the planetary challenges and opportunities that we have at our hands.

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