Back to World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026NTNicholas Thompson CEOThe AtlanticSessions (1)Sessions featuring Nicholas Thompson at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026Next Phase of IntelligencePanelists argued that scaling alone will not deliver reliable next-phase AI. They contrasted scientist AI for honest probabilistic guardrails, continual learning and test-time training, and world models that move from textual knowledge toward physical, social, and philosophical intelligence.ai-safetycontinual-learningworld-models+4 other speakers