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Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar

President at Strategic Foresight Group

Sundeep Waslekar is a thought leader on the global future. He has worked with sixty-five countries under the auspices of the Strategic Foresight Group, an international think tank he founded in 2002. He is a senior research fellow at the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflicts at Oxford University. He is a practitioner of Track Two diplomacy since the 1990s and has mediated in conflicts in South Asia, those between Western and Islamic countries on deconstructing terror, trans-boundary water conflicts, and is currently facilitating a nuclear risk reduction dialogue between permanent members of the UN Security Council. He was invited to address the United Nations Security Council session 7818 on water, peace and security. He has been quoted in more than 3,000 media articles from eighty countries. Waslekar read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford University from 1981 to 1983. He was conferred D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) of Symbiosis International University by the President of India in 2011.

My Work

Revolution Inside AI
·Artificial Intelligence

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

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group

Who Will Win the MAGA Crown?
·Economy, Policy & Society

Who Will Win the MAGA Crown?

Three competing visions inside the MAGA movement—over AI, immigration and national sovereignty—may determine America’s technological doctrine for the next decade

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Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group

What Appears to Be AI Is Not
·Artificial Intelligence

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

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Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group

The Rage of Parents
·Artificial Intelligence

The Rage of Parents

Around the world, families are fighting back against AI harms. Why is India still silent?

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Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group

Oppenheimer’s Lesson for the Age of AI
·Artificial Intelligence

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

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group

When AI Cheats Its Creators
·Artificial Intelligence

When AI Cheats Its Creators

Deception is no longer a human trait. AI has learned it too

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Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group

The Magic of Korean AI
·Artificial Intelligence

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

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Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group

Beyond AI: A new dawn
·Artificial Intelligence

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

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group

AI in Health and Biology: The Good, Bad and Ugly
·Artificial Intelligence

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

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group

At the top and bottom of the AI debate
·Artificial Intelligence

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

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group

The Global Politics of AI
·Economy, Policy & Society

The Global Politics of AI

The big powers are escalating the AI race, but some scientists fear that the technology will spin out of human control

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Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group

Is the world increasingly becoming a dangerous place to live?
·Economy, Policy & Society

Is the world increasingly becoming a dangerous place to live?

The existential threat to human civilization is not from wars, but from nuclear disaster and climate change. This is the first in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal

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Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group

Nuclear War: A 100 seconds to midnight
·Economy, Policy & Society

Nuclear War: A 100 seconds to midnight

We need to revisit our ideas of nation, humanity, and war. For nuclear annihilation is just a spark away

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Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar

President, Strategic Foresight Group