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?

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.

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?

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.

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?

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?

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. 

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.

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.

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.