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The Delhi Gap - by Anton Leicht - Threading the Needle

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Billions of people or trillions of dollars are catastrophically wrong.

My experience of the AI Impact Summit in Delhi has been characterised by a bewildering gap: on one side, there’s the summit as a trade show, an admittedly energetic tech conference with a lack of depth that would have you think it might just as well be about anything else: the internet or solar panels1 or robot vacuum cleaners. People sell new versions of the technology, strike narrow business deals, parade their local champions and go home with a few more deals. On the other side of this gap, there’s the summit as a meeting of leaders on frontier AI—serious and in touch with Silicon…

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