Forbes January 20, 2026
Nearly 3,000 participants from 130 countries gathered in Davos Monday morning to discuss what the World Economic Forum calls “The Spirit of Dialogue.” OpenAI’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane took the stage to warn about a “capability overhang” — the massive gap between what AI can do and what the world has figured out how to extract from it. The message was urgent, the setting was spectacular and the Champagne was excellent.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth nobody in the Swiss Alps wants to admit: the cavalry isn’t coming. Governments won’t regulate AI in time. Tech companies are already too big to fail. And I’ll say the quiet part out loud: we’re in a de facto “AI Cold War”...
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