Inside Davos: Who wins, who loses in the AI revolution?

The pathways to outsized opportunity in the U.S and globally are closing - elite institutions in business, tech, education, and politics are more locked down than ever. 

Fresh from the World Economic Forum in Davos, HKS alum and author Will Sentance invites you to explore the themes of his upcoming book, State of the West, co-authored with former Economist journalist Sam Blake. Together they examine the shifting landscape of pathways into opportunities and power.

Will was recently in Davos for the World Economic Forum with tech leaders like Yann LeCun (coinventer of natural networks), Andrew Ng (leading machine learning scientist), some of the biggest tech CEOs, and global leaders - getting a firsthand look at how power is shifting.

Will wants to pull back the curtain on what really happens in these rooms - including the limits of generative AI and what’s next, what tech CEOs’ own children are studying (a preview of the future), and why we’re on the cusp of a major economic and social transformation.

Historically, every disruption - the industrial age, the information age - started with gains concentrated at the top, but eventually unlocked new paths through education at scale. The question now: will this transformation follow the same path, or deepen the divide?

In this talk Will discuss with students what happened inside Davos 2025, an inside take on this coming disruption - and the role we can play as leaders that do it the right way.

Will Sentance - Will comes from a family of public school teachers, before studying at Oxford (2007-10) and Harvard Kennedy School (2012-14), and founding the leading independent tech school in the US with over 4000 graduates from across 30 countries. He is a tech educator with over 2m+ hours of views on his ML/AI/Coding/Entrepreneurship classes, a podcast host and the author of an upcoming book - ‘Just Power: Earned prosperity in the intelligence age’. willsentance.com

This study group / discussion is open to all HUID holders. Registration is not necessary. 

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