--- description: At a TIME100 Talk in Davos, Switzerland, participants discussed how AI has the potential to enhance areas including health care and climate. title: Experts and Business Leaders Share Their AI Hopes and Fears image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd372aff23c1b12f/6998b2b247fe51581855977b/Time_Round_Table_2025_095.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jan 23, 2025 # Experts and Business Leaders Share Their Hopes and Fears for AI by [Ayesha Javed](/author/ayesha-javed/) ## Ayesha Javed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Javed is a senior editor at TIME, based in the London bureau.  Business leaders and AI experts during the TIME100 Talks roundtable “Go Beyond the Transformative Power of AI,” in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Business leaders and AI experts during the TIME100 Talks roundtable “Go Beyond the Transformative Power of AI,” in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025.Christian Hutter Business leaders and AI experts discussed the challenges and potential of artificial intelligence (AI) during a TIME roundtable in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22\. Participants in the TIME100 Talks event, titled “Go Beyond the Transformative Power of AI,” discussed how AI has the potential to enhance areas including health care and climate, as well as the risks to consider as the technology advances rapidly. Attendees included musician will.i.am, who is also founder and CEO of [FYI.AI](https://time.com/7013494/will-i-am-ai-raidio-fyi/ "undefined"); [Yoshua Bengio](https://time.com/6964962/yoshua-bengio/ "undefined"), full professor at the Université de Montréal and founder and scientific director of Mila - Quebec AI Institute; [Tristan Harris](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6308793/tristan-harris-ai/ "undefined"), director and co-founder of The Centre for Humane Technology; Ravi Kumar S, CEO of Cognizant, which sponsored the event; 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, an 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 the 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 is owner of TIME.) TIME spoke with some of the participants on the sidelines of the event to learn more about how they are thinking about the technology. Head to [TIME's Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/time "undefined") to watch more. _TIME100 Talks—Go Beyond: The Transformative Power of AI was presented by Cognizant._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/davos-2025/7206120/time100-talks-the-transformative-power-of-ai/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/davos-2025/7206120/time100-talks-the-transformative-power-of-ai/"},"headline":"Experts and Business Leaders Share Their AI Hopes and Fears","datePublished":"2025-01-23T18:48:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:43:44.078Z","description":"At a TIME100 Talk in Davos, Switzerland, participants discussed how AI has the potential to enhance areas including health care and climate.","url":"https://time.com/collections/davos-2025/7206120/time100-talks-the-transformative-power-of-ai/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd372aff23c1b12f/6998b2b247fe51581855977b/Time_Round_Table_2025_095.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ayesha Javed","jobTitle":"Javed is a senior editor at TIME, based in the London bureau.","url":"https://time.com/author/ayesha-javed/"}],"creator":"Ayesha Javed","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd372aff23c1b12f/6998b2b247fe51581855977b/Time_Round_Table_2025_095.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/davos-2025/7206120/time100-talks-the-transformative-power-of-ai/","name":"Experts and Business Leaders Share Their AI Hopes and Fears"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME100 Talks Roundtable: If AI Could Solve One Global Challenge by 2030, What Should It Be? 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