Davos 2026 the key trends, AI and Who Gets to Use It

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Iaros Belkin discusses key trends from Davos 2026, focusing on AI adoption and control.

Guest post by Iaros Belkin, Founder of Belkin Marketing The WEF Annual Meeting 2026 brought together nearly 3,000 leaders from 130+ countries. The official theme was cooperation. The actual agenda, in the rooms behind the sessions, was control. I was invited to speak at the unDavos Summit this year, and brought several of the projects I advise. That combination put me in a number of closed-room conversations that don't make it into the session recordings. What I want to share here came from those rooms. Davos 2026, the Adoption Question Is Closed. The Control Question Is Open. Every conversation I walked into started with AI and ended somewhere else within twenty minutes. Clearly because the real question had already replaced the surface one. The surface question: how do we adopt AI and scale it? And that one is settled. WEF's own documentation confirms that leading organizations have moved from potential to performance, embedding AI into core strategy, redesigning workforces. The real question: who controls the infrastructure that AI runs on, and what happens to everyone who doesn't control it? Sovereign tech stacks are not a 2030 concern. Countries are building their own…

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Guest: Iaros Belkin

Topics covered

• AI
• Davos 2026
• global risks
• technology control
• infrastructure

Keywords

• AI
• Davos
• WEF
• infrastructure
• global risks
• technology

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Organizations: Belkin Marketing, WEF, WEF Global Risks Survey 2026

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