Fordel StudiosAI CEOs transformed Davos into a tech conference
What Happened
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade. AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional topics like climate change and global poverty, and t
Our Take
Of course it did. Climate and poverty are hard with diffuse stakeholders. AI is sexy and everyone wants near the money. Meta and Salesforce literally took storefronts. This is late-stage hype - cocktail crowd caring more than engineers. By next year? "AI's overhyped," back to ESG or whatever. Fashion.
When conferences get taken over by CEOs instead of engineers, the cycle's about to reverse.
Davos is where you go to be seen, not to learn. The real work happens in labs and arXiv papers.
What To Do
Skip Davos - your AI insights come from arXiv, not billionaires in the snow.
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