Artificial intelligence is transforming the business world in ways we couldn’t have imagined until recently. Just how—and what the future holds—was the topic of a panel discussion at the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future of AI in San Francisco on Monday moderated by TIME’s executive editor Nikhil Kumar.

The panelists were Ravi Kumar S , CEO of Cognizant, which sponsored the event; Athina Kanioura, chief strategy and transformation officer at PepsiCo, which also sponsored the event; and Jared Kaplan , co-founder and chief science officer at Anthropic . Ravi Kumar and Kaplan both featured on the 2025 TIME100 AI list , which highlights the 100 most influential people in AI this year, from computer scientists to business leaders to policy makers and artists.

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