Yesterday, much of the WEF news focused on U.S. President Trump’s speech, but also on the order of the day was AI leaders hailing AI for its potential to boost productivity, profits, and even GDP. In many sessions some speakers did broach the topic of equitable progress for the everyday workers, whose lives and jobs they admitted would be disrupted by AI. BlackRock’s Larry Fink, co-chair of the WEF, said, “progress cannot be measured by GDP or market caps of companies. It has to be judged by many people who see it, who can touch it, can feel it, and can build their own future on it… dialogue is the only way a room like this can earn the legitimacy to shape ideas for people who aren’t in the room.” On the main stage, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang invoked his “five-layer cake” analogy when talking of energy, chips, compute, cloud data centers, AI models, and applications. “Most people think the AI models are where AI is,” said Huang, adding, however, that the applications are where “the economic benefit” will happen, particularly for what he deemed as “AI natives” across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, robotics, and other sectors that he says will lead the next massive wave of economic growth. “We are a few billion dollars in right now, but there are trillions-of-dollars of infrastructure that have to be built out, and it’s sensible, because all of these contexts have to be processed so that the models can generate the intelligence necessary to power the applications that ultimately sit on top,” said Huang. For more highlights, check out RCRTech’s “World Economic Forum AI Roundup: days 3 & 4” and go to the WEF site live and on-demand streams of sessions.