Elon Musk at Davos 2026: why technology could shape a more 'abundant future'
From artificial intelligence (AI) and humanoid robots to solar power and life beyond Earth.
Sophia Akram is a freelance journalist with interest in foreign policy, human rights and global development, featured in Al Jazeera, Vice and other outlets. She is also an editor with the World Economic Forum.
From artificial intelligence (AI) and humanoid robots to solar power and life beyond Earth.
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow as one of the most widely used technology applications, lingering questions remain about how more people can benefit from it and just how...
“AI is going to, it already has enormous benefits, but there are significant risks. And if you want to take advantage of those enormous benefits and mitigate those risks, then you really ...
“Air pollution is the silent killer, first and foremost: 8.1 million people a year are dying because of air pollution-related health risks.”
“Climate doom - that's disempowering and just leaves us paralysed by fear but also by the complexity of the situation.”
“I met him in person. [He] looked like his pictures. Really charming. Really opening up to me. So we had a coffee. He was talking about his job. He was the CEO of a big diamond company. O...
“What we need... is people to understand that when they go out and take a trip, there’s this style of consumerism, there’s a responsibility they have to learn about the environment, the p...
“I give it about two years to get mass adoption but what Apple has done is laid the groundwork to get us all used to the fact that we will have digital content overlooking our visual fiel...
“Whether it's semiconductors or cars or cellphones or the toothpaste that you use to brush your teeth in the morning, it all depends on the mining industry in one way or the other,” says ...
“Unless the clean products become competitive, price competitive, it's very difficult to create markets. In wind and solar, it took almost four decades for that to happen. We know that we...
“If you look at how we have managed to advance cooperation and multilateralism, both during the Cold War and the post-Cold War, the middle powers play this extremely important role in bot...
“It’s now cheaper to save the world than destroy it,” is the first line of Akshat Rathi’s book Climate Capitalism, in which the senior climate reporter for Bloomberg explores how, with th...
“AI can be beautiful but AI can be diabolical, just like people,” says veteran musician and producer Nile Rodgers, “I think that any tool that allows an artist to create is an amazing thi...
“There’s no doubt about it that the ‘manosphere,’ as it’s termed, is a growing and worrying situation… I think they are outriders but there’s too many of them to just let it go and not be...
"Los argumentos medioambientales a favor de la transición energética están muy claros. Ahora tenemos que acelerar en los argumentos empresariales y económicos".











