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“LLMs are dumb. Superintelligence won’t arrive by scaling them up”
AI Godfather YANN LECUN shares his path to true artificial intelligence. And why his “world models” won’t be dangerous
“Don't produce superintelligence until you know how to control it.”
AI pioneer STUART RUSSELL on creating an intelligence more powerful than ours and why, for the sake of humanity, the AI bubble should burst.
“Gene for medicine is like the chip for IT”
Biotech pioneer KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW & health tech trailblazer SANGITA REDDY on exciting frontiers of medicine. And why AI needs to learn from biology
“We will surpass you”
Robots SOPHIA & DESDEMONA go off-script during live debate. And roboticist SYLVIA STOCKER explains the excitement of this new species
“You could cross India north to south in 30 secs if you hitched a ride on the Parker Solar Probe”
NASA astrophysicist NOUR RAWAFI on what it takes to touch the sun. And unravel the marvel – and mysteries – of our live-giving star
“AI couldn’t have made Breathless. Only human intelligence can create something new”
Grammy winning maestro SHANKAR MAHADEVAN on how AI is a glorified calculator & useful tool – but can’t replace joy & originality of human collaboration
“People should have the right to decide how long they want to live”
Age engineer YUTA LEE & cryonics pioneer EMIL KENDZIORRA on death as an engineering problem & why we are morally obligated to try to live forever
“It's easier to tell a chatbot ‘I love you’ versus a real person.”
A mother-turned advocate against chatbot harms MEGAN GARCIA on the persuasive power & peril of companion AI. And the story of her son who died by suicide
“We need a new phrase: AI attachment disorders”
Tech philosopher DANIEL BARCAY on the new attachment economy. AI chatbots as con-men. And who needs to be held responsible
“Building on the Moon will help us build better on Earth”
Urban futurist ALANA GOLDWEIT on building a city on the moon, its lessons for architecture on earth & how to adapt for extreme landscapes
“The point of technology is to support humans, not to get rid of us.”
Author & journalist KAREN HAO unpacks the Silicon Valley psyche powering the great AI boom. And why it’s imperialism at a scale never seen before.
“I was labeling cats, now I'm labeling dead bodies.”
AI ghost workers & digital rights activists EPHANTUS KANYUGI & JOAN KINYUA on the invisible workforce training AI. And the human trauma behind digital intelligence
“Be on the table, not on the menu”
Defence Secretary RAJESH KUMAR SINGH, Chief Science Advisor AJAY SOOD, and tech exec KALYAN KUMAR on India’s playbooks for defence & tech sovereignty
“AI is making me fall in love with being human”
Top Director NEERAJ GHAYWAN & surging star ISHAAN KHATTER on why they won’t use AI. And the value in human imperfections
“The brain may measure transcendence. But it cannot contain it”
Neuroscientist ANDREW NEWBERG & spiritual leader SADHVI BHAGAWATI SARASWATI on mind, meditation, meaning. Is the search for sacred wired into the brain?
“Humans in the loop are a vulnerability”
Palantir Operator DAVID SPIRK & filmmaker SONIA KENNEBECK on AI kill chains, remote-controlled wars. And lasting impact on human psyche & society
“A whale could soon represent itself in court”
Sea sleuth DAVID GRUBER on whales – their biology, language, worldview. And using AI to crack their code
“It takes just a few tech leaders to put their foot down. To press pause”
Character.ai CEO KARANDEEP ANAND on AI chatbots & roleplay. Self-harm & loneliness. Guardrails. And where the buck stops
“China has no intention to replace US as a global leader”
Top political scientist YAN XUETONG on Beijing’s playbook for the 21st century, the shape of the global order. And China through its own lens
"Welcome to the new Middle Ages – a multipolar world with AI"
Global strategist PARAG KHANNA & G42 executive FAHEEM AHAMED on new geopolitics. Why globalisation isn’t dead. And a world beyond superpowers
“Music won’t just be heard. It will be experienced”
Merlin of Music TY ROBERTS on AI, avatars, entertainment. And why next-gen music will be visual, programmable, posthumous
“Tokenize assets. Democratize finance”
Digital rainmaker SIDDHARTH SHETTY on the next superhighway for finance. Tokenised land & programmable assets. And unlocking individual sovereignty
“Fusion is the single most economically attractive energy source ever”
Moonshot innovator ADAM RUTKOWSKI on nuclear fusion, the power of the stars, and fulfilling the alchemist’s dream of turning mercury into gold
“In 6 months, we made a drug from scratch – personalised to baby KJ”
CRISPR expert KIRAN MUSUNURU on editing a dying baby's DNA, rewriting disease & revolutionising personal medicine.
“A bag made of 99% air: It’s basically a cloud”
Tech-couturists ARNAUD VAILLANT & SEBASTIEN MEYER on breaking fashion boundaries. With tech spectacle. And magic materials
