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S5E45 Subsea Cables, Trusted Networks, and India's Strategic Opportunity
Pooja opens with a mismatch that frames the entire conversation. India consumes around 20% of global internet traffic but accounts for just 2% of global subsea cable infrastructure. Even with the…
S5E44 AI Literacy and the Future of Work in India
Jaspreet's framing for the AI and work debate is worth staying with. He is not dismissive of disruption: he thinks AI will destroy certain jobs, create new ones, and the rupture will be real. But he…
S5E43 Can AI Resources Be Democratized? AI Summit Special
This episode is part of our special series on the India AI Impact Summit, examining the conversations, decisions, and debates that are shaping global AI governance. The working group was designed…
S5E42 Space Security in the Age of AI
Almudena opens with a distinction that anchors the entire conversation: space security, unlike space safety, is about intentional harm. It concerns deliberate attempts to disrupt, deny, or destroy…
S5E41 An African Perspective for Building AI for Global South | AI Summit Special
This episode is part of our special series on the India AI Impact Summit, examining the conversations, decisions, and debates that are shaping global AI governance. Raymond draws a distinction early…
S5E40 The India-EU Trade Deal: What It Delivers and What It Doesn't
For most of the last decade, a trade deal between India and the EU seemed unlikely. The nudge came as the world changed around both. Nicolas points to three converging forces: the pressure of US…
S5E39 From Bletchley Park to Delhi and What Comes Next | AI Summit Special
This episode is part of our special series on the India AI Impact Summit 2026, examining the conversations, perspectives, and debates that are shaping global AI discourse. Tino has been in the room…
S5E38 Data, AI, and the Laws Trying to Keep Up
The conversation begins with a close look at India’s data protection regime, particularly the DPDP Act and its emphasis on consent. Nikhil challenges the perception that the law is overly…
S5E37 Inside the Iran Conflict: Power, Strategy, and India’s Balancing Act
The conversation begins with a look at where the conflict stands today and how Iran has managed to absorb significant military pressure while still responding in a measured way. Dharmendra explains…
S5E36 Recalibrating BRICS: India’s Moment in a Fragmented World
The episode begins with a reflection on Brazil’s 2025 BRICS presidency, which emphasized continuity with the bloc’s original reformist agenda—particularly the push for reform of global financial…
S5E35 Deciphering the “Mother of All Trade Deals”: The India–EU FTA
Kumar frames the India–EU FTA as a deal India needed, not one it merely chose, arguing that with the multilateral trade system weakened, FTAs have become the practical route to secure market access…
S5E34 AI Adoption Journey for Population Scale: The UCAF Framework
AI progress is often measured by the number of pilots launched, but this episode argues the real unit of progress should be how many AI use cases are reliably in production and embedded into everyday…
S4E33 Scarcity, Sovereignty, Strategy: Mapping the Political Geography of AI Compute
As AI systems grow more powerful, the computational infrastructure behind them has become a strategic resource, one that is unevenly distributed across the world. This episode takes a deep look at…
S4E32 Cybersecurity in Outer Space: A Growing Concern
The conversation explores how cybersecurity is integral to space operations, drawing parallels with traditional air defense strategies. Blount discusses the historical context of cybersecurity in…
S4E31 Unbundling AI Openness: Beyond the Binary
The episode challenges the familiar “open versus closed” framing of AI systems. Sharma argues that openness is not inherently good or bad—it is an instrumental choice that should align with specific…
S4E30 India’s Air Defense After Operation Sindoor: Lessons and the Road Ahead
India’s air defense has transformed from sparse radars in the 1960s to a multilayered network anchored by the Integrated Air Command and Control System (IACCS), linking radars, interceptors, and…
S4E29 Military AI and Autonomous Weapons: Gender, Ethics, and Governance
The episode opens with Bhatt framing the global stakes: from drones on the battlefield to AI-powered early warning systems, militaries worldwide are racing to integrate AI, often citing strategic…
S4E28 Beyond Superintelligence: A Realist's Guide to AI
The episode begins with Kapoor explaining the origins of AI Snake Oil, tracing it back to his PhD research at Princeton on AI's limited predictive capabilities in social science domains. He shares…
S4E27 Navigating the Open v. Closed Source AI Debate with Kailash Nadh
The episode opens with an in-depth discussion about the value of open source as a model of development and how the definitional contours of open-source AI differ from those of traditional open-source…
S4E26 Interpreting China: From the LAC to Taiwan – Mapping China’s Assertiveness
In this conversation, Aadil Brar and Saheb Singh Chadha examine how China's strategic behavior across the India-China border, Taiwan Strait, and South China Sea reflects a broader effort to create…
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