Since 2024, five themes have shaped how we think about AI.

How our thinking has moved

Five questions, followed year after year. Start with 2027 and travel back to where it began.

Discovery

AI is becoming one of the most powerful tools science has ever had.

We follow what it lets people find, and who gets to use it.

AI is widening what people can know, make and decide. In 2027 we ask who gets to shape that bigger world.

In 2027, the question is what AI can find on its own.

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Agents reached everyday work and nations raced to build their own AI. We asked what stays distinctly human.

AI moved from analysing to designing: medicines, treatments and models of the planet.

How much faster can new medicines reach patients when AI helps design them?

AI had arrived. The question moved from promise to proof: where does it create real value?

We asked where AI was already working in science and health, not just where it might.

How are AI and physics starting to change each other?

The first AI House in Davos, as AI went mainstream. We asked where the technology really stood.

We asked whether AI could become a useful tool for scientists and doctors.

Could AI help solve scientific problems that have stumped us for decades?

These questions are open, and the best answers come from many perspectives.