AI should not fall into the geopolitics and hierarchies of haves and have-nots | The Hindu Editorial

By The Hindu

Community Score: 50% | 34 views | 4w

0 community ratings: null thumbs up, null thumbs down

Artificial Intelligence is at a strange crossroads, with the United States government disregarding frontier AI developers’ own call for a global development slowdown of models due to hacking risks and misalignment and the BRICS Summit offering an alternative view of how geopolitics should respond to this rapidly evolving situation. The AI firms and the U.S. government have long framed the astronomical sums being funnelled into data centres and other associated investments as key to holding their ground in a U.S.-China competition. During the Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned against the “weaponisation” of technology and minerals, while Chinese President Xi Jinping touted the potential of a “BRICS AI open source community” that would challenge any one country’s dominance in the sector. India has taken the middle path, not joining any protest against U.S.-led models, while underscoring the need to keep AI development insulated from national rivalries. While some of this approac

Tags: the hindu, the hindu news, the hindu latest news, the hindu updates, brics summit ai, brics summit, brics summit 2026, 18th brics summit, brics summit day 2, brics summit news, india brics summit, brics summit delhi, brics summit venue, ai regulation, ai tech leaders regulation, regulation delay, federal regulation, government regulation, tech regulation battle., big tech regulation trojan horse