00:00Top focus tonight, AI versus humanity, control war.
00:04As the race to build powerful artificial intelligence accelerates,
00:10a far more fundamental question is emerging.
00:12What happens if AI gets there before we humans are ready?
00:17From Washington to Beijing, AI is no longer just a tech story.
00:22It is about power, national security, and who gets to shape the future.
00:26But here is dangerous paradox.
00:31The dangerous paradox.
00:34Even the people building some of the world's most advanced AI systems
00:38are now raising the alarm,
00:39warning that the tech may be advancing faster than the safeguards
00:43designed to keep it under human control.
00:46The world knows AI could be risky,
00:49and yet no major power wants to be the one to slow down first,
00:53because the world may now fear falling behind the AI race
00:58almost as much as it fears AI itself.
01:01And that is where the biggest question come to the forefront.
01:05If AI is dangerous, why are we racing to build it?
01:09Before I bring in the guests, here's a report.
01:31The world wants to win the artificial intelligence race.
01:35But suddenly the biggest question is not just who gets there first,
01:40but what happens if AI gets there before we humans are ready.
01:46At the BRICS summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned about the weaponization of technology.
01:52The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, pushed for an open-source AI ecosystem within BRICS,
01:58a model of cooperation that puts China at the center of the global AI conversation.
02:03But now that conversation is turning into a confrontation.
02:09After former Enthropic researcher Jacob resigned and warned that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade.
02:17Enthropic CEO Dario Emodei has called for the world's most advanced AI companies
02:22to slow the pace of developing warning that AI is improving so quickly
02:27that safety and human control could fall behind.
02:32Open AI's Sam Altman, too, has agreed.
02:36Tesla boss Elon Musk has also said Dario is right.
02:41Even Microsoft's Satya Nadella has now added his voice,
02:45saying any pursuit of superintelligence must benefit humanity and remain under human control.
02:53But Beijing is pushing back.
02:55China has rejected cause to curb its AI development,
02:59saying countries should cooperate rather than engage in confrontation
03:03of what it calls malicious competition.
03:09The development of artificial intelligence concerns the common well-being of all humanity.
03:15Spreading various threat narratives and engaging in confrontation and malicious competition
03:19will only disrupt the global AI governance process and serve the interests of no one.
03:28And China's state-backed Global Times has even accused Emodei of using a Cold War playbook
03:34to contain China's AI ambitions.
03:37There is a reason this is becoming so explosive.
03:41Emodei himself has warned that a Chinese lead in AI could pose a grave danger to the US
03:47while calling for tighter restrictions on advanced AI chips going to China,
03:52a charge that Beijing has denied.
04:09So the argument is no longer simply AI safety versus AI innovation.
04:15It is becoming AI safety versus the fear of losing the AI race.
04:20And who else is firmly on the side of that race?
04:23US President Donald Trump.
04:25He has dismissed cause to slow AI development, citing rivalry with China.
04:32We're leading China in AI.
04:34We're the most sophisticated country in the world.
04:36And frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins, AI wins.
04:41And we can put guardrails, we can do this and that.
04:44But I think you have a lot of negative voices that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it
04:49up.
04:49And they're bringing up things that won't happen.
04:51And that indeed puts the coming Trump-Xi talks in a very different light.
04:56Because AI is now sitting at the intersection of tech, national security and global power.
05:03The irony is striking.
05:05The US and China are preparing to talk about AI safety.
05:09But both are also racing to make sure the other does not get ahead.
05:15While governments fight over who controls AI, its builders face a deeper question.
05:22Can humans remain in control of what they are creating?
05:26And now, people are asking them something even simpler.
05:30If it is dangerous, why build it?
05:34If AI capabilities race ahead of safeguards, the biggest risk may not be who wins the AI race,
05:41but whether anyone is ready for what comes after the finish line.
05:46Bureau Report, India Today.
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