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
Sundeep Waslekar
President
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 contributions
15 articles written
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
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
The Rage of Parents
Around the world, families are fighting back against AI harms. Why is India still silent?
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?
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?
When AI Cheats Its Creators
Deception is no longer a human trait. AI has learned it too
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
India’s AI Gambit: Exploring Our Strategic Options
How India can shape, not just follow, the global rules of AI governance
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