·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Moment
As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity
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Pankaj Saran
Convenor, NatStrat
Artificial Intelligence
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·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Gambit: The Choices That Will Define Power
Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity
FF
Founding Fuel
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
Anatomy of a Prompt
On prompting, intent, and the discipline of asking well
AB
DM
Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
·AI Ethics & Governance
Revolution Inside AI
As the world fixates on large language models, a quieter shift toward world models, scientific AI and safety is reshaping global power
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Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Crow Syndrome of AI
When machines, like humans, fail to see difference—and turn bias into code
CG
Chirantan Ghosh
Seasoned technologist, Growth architect and business leader
·AI Ethics & Governance
Are LLMs Just Clever Parrots?
Inside the growing chorus of doubt from AI’s own pioneers
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Shishir Prasad
Senior Business Journalist
·The Geopolitics of AI
What Appears to Be AI Is Not
Beneath the chatter about chatbots, a deeper contest is unfolding—between nations, companies, and scientists racing to build the AI that will control life itself
SW
Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Rage of Parents
Around the world, families are fighting back against AI harms. Why is India still silent?
SW
Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
The Real Shifts Happening with AI
Notes from 'Reshuffle: Who Wins when AI Restacks the Knowledge Economy’, Sangeet Paul Choudary's new book
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Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory, Product & AI Strategy Advisor
·AI Ethics & Governance
Oppenheimer’s Lesson for the Age of AI
As with the atomic bomb, a new technology threatens humanity. Will we look up this time—or repeat history’s worst mistake?
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Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Love of One’s Tongue in the Age of AI
AI can speak in dozens of tongues — but often thinks in just one. Why India must lead in building systems fluent in its own realities
KA
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Ubuntu of AI: South Africa's Moral Imagination
What does artificial intelligence look like when viewed through the lens of justice, solidarity, and Ubuntu?
·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Gambit
What will it take for India to lead, not just react, in the age of AI? An exclusive Founding Fuel - NatStrat Live session
·AI Ethics & Governance
When AI Cheats Its Creators
Deception is no longer a human trait. AI has learned it too
SW
Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Magic of Korean AI
While the world fixates on AI breakthroughs in the US and China, South Korea is crafting a distinctive and balanced model—powered by innovation and governed by foresight
SW
Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Gambit: Exploring Our Strategic Options
How India can shape, not just follow, the global rules of AI governance
SW
Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
Our extended minds and AI notetakers
Transcription tools enhance our intelligence, allow us to revisit conversations and glean insights we might have missed, and share knowledge with extended teams. Here's what you need to know to select the right one for you
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·The New AI Enterprise Architecture
Beyond AI: A new dawn
Most AI today works within the boundaries set by human designers. New tools like Google's AutoML-Zero challenge that boundary
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Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
·AI Ethics & Governance
AI in Health and Biology: The Good, Bad and Ugly
AI can detect disease and find medicines which no doctor can. It can also develop biological weapons which do not exist on the earth
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Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
·AI at Work
AMA: How to make AI work for you?
Tanuj Bhojwani and Anmol Shrivastava answer questions on how to make AI a part of your lives
·AI Ethics & Governance
At the top and bottom of the AI debate
Along the march of AI, two issues need attention: one is of regulation. The other, equally critical, is ensuring that the poor can access and learn the best and latest tech
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Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
AI natives are here. Are you keeping up?
Are you adapting, exploring, or waiting for change to push you forward?
KA
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
AI’s Best-Kept Secret: It’s Not the Tools, It’s You
In a world brimming with AI possibilities, it’s easy to get lost in the hype. But the magic is not in the perfect tools, it’s in using them thoughtfully. Whether you’re a beginner or already well-versed, the key is to start simple and experiment boldly. Like learning to ride a bike, the more you engage, the more natural it will feel. Here’s how I am learning
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Anmol Shrivastava
Entrepreneur, strategist, and technology consultant
·AI at Work
FF Daily #554: Humans vs. AI
December 21, 2021: The rot in education; Why the latest Spiderman movie matters; Relativity for dummies
FF
Founding Fuel
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
FF Daily #514: When humans and AI work together
November 3, 2021: Solving climate crisis needs new tools; The cult of haters; Truth tellers
FF
Founding Fuel
·AI Ethics & Governance
FF Daily #512: Scams and heists in the world of AI and remote working
November 1, 2021: Mark Zuckerberg on the metaverse; Air India’s Maharaja; Stay quiet
FF
Founding Fuel
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
The human intelligence behind intelligent machines
A conversation with Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, director of ISI, about discovering patterns, learning from data, collaboration across disciplines, and how to get girls to take the STEM path (it starts at the primary education level, she says)
·AI Infrastructure & Capabilities
AlphaFold; Bitcoins; and the Chinese lunar mission
This Week in Disruptive Tech | December 3, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·AI Infrastructure & Capabilities
WFH Daily #149: From good to great in the age of AI
August 19, 2020: Gary Kasparov on AI; Shravan Bhat on financial freedom; Santosh & Pallavi Desai on starting up
FF
Founding Fuel
·AI Ethics & Governance
Why we are fascinated—and scared—by AI
This Week in Disruptive Tech | July 22, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·AI Ethics & Governance
Not AI alone but AI + ethics
AI systems may be making important decisions that will fundamentally affect the lives of Indians. For AI to be truly transformative though, its ethical biases need to be rooted out
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N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
·The Geopolitics of AI
Algorithmic War is upon us
China and the US are already locked in a race to become the AI superpower. China seems to have a lead. It is creating an ecosystem for AI through state sponsorship and the innovations by entrepreneurial ventures
FF
Founding Fuel
·AI Ethics & Governance
The unintended consequences of technology and why it matters
In this podcast, Wharton professor Kartik Hosanagar talks about how automated decisions affect billions and what consumers can do to take back control, can a VC firm be a Pixar of VC firms, and the organisational changes Google made to become AI-first
·AI Ethics & Governance
‘As machines become more intelligent, they also become unpredictable’
In 2016, Go world champion Lee Sedol lost to AlphaGo, Google’s Go-playing AI program. How did the program do this? And why does this feat matter? Kartik Hosanagar answers that in this extract from his book, ‘A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence’
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Kartik Hosanagar
John C. Hower Professor of Technology and Digital Business and Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
·The Geopolitics of AI
AI as a global public good, a digitised world, and why philosophy matters
Feb 19, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: artificial intelligence, augmented reality, ethics in tech
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
What AI can show us about what it means to be human
Brian Christian, author of ‘The Most Human Human’ and ‘Algorithms to Live By’, discusses the gaps and overlaps between humans and machines
CK
CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
·AI Ethics & Governance
Man versus machine: The humanity of intelligence
While artificial intelligence is a force for good, there are times it ought to be deliberately dissed. Else, we run the risk of losing our humanity
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·AI Ethics & Governance
AlphaGo versus Kasparov, Puchu and Champu
That artificial intelligence is here to stay seems a given. But Garry Kasparov and I believe we aren’t going any place. My little girls need us
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
Can artificial intelligence augment humankind? Or is it a threat?
In conversation with Prof Brad Nelson, who is known for his research in microrobotics, nanorobotics, and medical robotics. He was named in the 2005 “Scientific American 50” list recognising outstanding leaders in science and technology
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CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
Surviving the future
AI, Infosys and e-commerce’s hour of reckoning
FF
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