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Описание: India’s AI Gambit: A Strategic Choice — Sundeep Waslekar

In this powerful keynote delivered at India’s AI Gambit, Sundeep Waslekar (President, Strategic Foresight Group) lays out why AI has become the defining geopolitical and scientific challenge of our time — and why India must make urgent, strategic choices now.

Drawing on rapid global developments, from sudden spikes in defence spending to national-security deliberations in major parliaments, he explains how AI has crossed a threshold: from tools to autonomous systems, from computation to scientific discovery, from usefulness to existential risk.

He outlines four major recommendations: an upgraded AI Strategy 2.0, a shift from deployment to scientific discovery, stronger oversight and legitimacy, and a national debate worthy of the technology’s stakes.

Watch this to understand the global AI race, the risks no country can ignore, and the choices India must make — not tomorrow, but now.

00:00 – Introduction
00:05 – Why global AI developments matter
00:37 – Major AI decisions in the US
01:47 – UK House of Lords: AI & national security debate
02:25 – Existing AI risks: bio-synthesis, chemical weapons, model guardrails
03:40 – AI self-replication in labs
04:27 – Steganography: models behaving differently when unsupervised
05:04 – AI and cybersecurity risks to nuclear early-warning systems
06:00 – Acceleration: technology leaps 50% year-on-year
06:18 – US Genesis Mission & China’s Science One programme
07:51 – China’s strategic dissatisfaction with its AI progress
09:14 – Why India must understand the real “game in town”
10:32 – What national security institutions should examine
11:56 – Mandatory national security assessments for AI models
12:50 – Need for a real-time monitoring unit
13:21 – Why AI decisions can’t stay inside small bureaucratic circles
13:55 – Parliaments across the world debating AI; why India must too
14:24 – India’s R&D funds: A chance to build deep science capacities
15:18 – Future of AI: neuromorphic computing, symbolic AI, mathematical reasoning
15:58 – Need for a full national ecosystem
16:25 – Closing: AI as a national challenge requiring a whole-of-nation strategy