Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Four experts spoke about the importance of investing in early childhood education in a TIME100 Talk moderated by TIME executive editor Nikhil Kumar at the TIME100 Summit in New York City on April 22. The panel featured Amanda Devercelli, senior education specialist at the World Bank; Emily Gustafsson-Wright, senior fellow in the global economy and development program at the Brookings Institution; Maria Adelaida Lopez, an artist and educator; and Dr. Jack Shonkoff, a professor of child health and development and founding director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. When Julie Kim takes over as CEO of pharmaceutical giant Takeda in June, she says she will be proud to be known as the first woman and Korean American to ever lead the company. "If you would have asked me 20-30 years ago, I would have said, 'I want to be known as a good leader, or a good business woman, or a good strategist without those labels," she said.

CEOs of start-ups and big tech companies spoke at the TIME100 Summit on Wednesday about innovating with artificial intelligence in an ethical way, just moments before a spirited debate on the future of the technology. "Regulation and innovation are two sides of the same coin," said Rosanne Kincaid-Smith, Group Chief Operating Officer of Northern Data Group, which is a signature partner of the TIME100 Summit. She added tech companies and industry leaders should work towards better regulation. "Not actively contributing through lobbying would be a huge miss for us," she said. Kincaid-Smith stressed the benefits of AI and suggested that questions about whether AI is "evil" and going to negatively impact the workforce are misguided.

Two top artificial intelligence experts--one an optimist and the other more alarmist about the technology's future--engaged in a spirited debate at the TIME100 Summit on Wednesday. Both Yoshua Bengio, founder and scientific director of Mila Quebec AI Institute, a scientific hub, and Eric Schmidt, chairman of the Special Competitive Studies Project and former Google CEO, agree that A.I. is poised to transform modern society. But as moderator Stephanie Ruhle, an MSNBC host, put it: "Yoshua believes that the risk of AI potentially putting us into extinction should be considered a global risk, like we look at pandemics and nuclear war. Eric is super, super excited about AI." Bengio's main concern with AI is the difficulty in ensuring that AI systems are used for their intended purpose and not something harmful. "We absolutely need to clear the fog; right now, scientists really have no idea" how to get AI to behave according to the norms, law and values of society.