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AI could pose 'existential' risk to humanity, UN rights chief warns.
U.N. rights chief Volker Turk warned on Monday that artificial intelligence could become powerful enough to threaten humanity, and said he would urge companies in the coming days to reduce the risks.
“I share the concerns of industry insiders that advanced AI could pose an existential risk to humanity,” Turk told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva in a sweeping speech ahead of the start of his second term next month.
“I am calling here, today, for an all-out effort to put cast iron guarantees in place around the safety and security of AI, before it is too late.”
Without naming them, Turk warned that just a handful of men held “almost unlimited power over AI”. Top AI companies include Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.
Source: Indian Express
u/DefinitelyNotAakarsh — 1 month ago
▲ 89 r/AI_India
Union Minister of Electronics & IT, Railways, and I&B announces the availability of 18,000+ affordable AI compute units. Where could this possibly lead us?
u/DefinitelyNotAakarsh — 1 month ago
IndiGo backed Sarvam AI to deploy agentic voice workflows in production, could this collab bring something fruitful?
IndiGo Ventures just participated in Sarvam AI’s Series B round. But instead of just a generic strategic investment, they’re integrating Sarvam’s voice and agentic infrastructure directly into live airline operations.
Why this matters for the Indian AI dev ecosystem:
- Voice-First in India: Airline ops in India require high-volume, multi-lingual, low-latency voice models that off-the-shelf Western LLMs usually struggle with due to regional accents and code-switching (Hinglish, etc.).
- Production-Grade Sovereign AI: This moves the narrative from "Look at this cool Indic benchmark demo" to "This handles millions of real customer/workforce ops per day."
- The Local Enterprise Play: Indian corporate giants are choosing local AI stacks over standard OpenAI/Anthropic APIs for data sovereignty and customized domain context.
u/DefinitelyNotAakarsh — 1 month ago
TIME just released its 100 Most Influential People in AI for 2026, and 9 Indian-origin leaders made the list.
On paper, it looks like a huge win:
- Enterprise & Hardware: Arvind Krishna (IBM), Ravi Kumar S (Cognizant)
- Sovereign & Local AI: Vivek Raghavan (Sarvam AI), Utkarsh Saxena (Adalat AI - Indian judicial AI)
- Core Research & Helth: Anima Anandkumar (Caltech), Suchi Saria (Bayesian Health)
However, I can't help but look at the split. Most of the core frontier research and massive infrastructure leads are still based in US academia or US tech giants. Meanwhile, the builders physically based in India (Sarvam, Adalat) are almost exclusively focusing on vertical/application layers—like Indic language processing, enterprise agents, and legal/civic workflows.
Is this India's optimal playbook—skipping the burning billions on foundational LLM pre-training to win the local application layer instead? Or are we setting ourselves up as "API wrappers for the Global South"?
So what’s your take? Should Indian tech focus 100% on domain-specific application layers, or do we still need a true homegrown frontier model to stay relevant long-term?
u/DefinitelyNotAakarsh — 2 months ago
Launching r/IndianScienceJournal!
Hello everyone!
Today, we're excited to announce the launch of r/IndianScienceJournal — a community-driven, peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to fostering scientific communication, critical thinking, and research culture in India.
Our vision is simple:
To build India's largest free, community-driven peer-reviewed scientific journal and research community on Reddit.
Why We Created This Community
Scientific publishing is often expensive, inaccessible, and intimidating for students, independent researchers, and science enthusiasts. Many journals charge substantial publication fees, while others remain locked behind paywalls.
We believe there should be a place where scientific ideas can be shared, reviewed, improved, and discussed freely.
That's where r/IndianScienceJournal comes in.
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Unlike many science communities that consist primarily of links and reposts, we encourage contributors to write complete articles directly as Reddit posts.
We do not want a feed filled with links that immediately redirect readers elsewhere.
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This is a journal first and foremost. Quality matters.
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Many members of our moderation and support team come with experience from managing established scientific communities, and we intend to uphold similarly strong moderation standards, review practices, and community policies.
As the subreddit grows, we will continue building a competent editorial and moderation structure capable of maintaining both quality and fairness.
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Welcome to r/IndianScienceJournal!
u/DefinitelyNotAakarsh — 4 months ago