When More Intelligence Makes Strategy Harder
AI has made intelligence abundant. Why, then, is strategy becoming harder?
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Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
Artificial Intelligence
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Why AI Needs a New Safety Architecture
Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can govern it. A new report argues that extreme AI risks demand a fundamentally different approach to global governance.
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
The Question AI Cannot Ask
The real advantage in an AI-driven world may not be answering questions better, but knowing which questions matter
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Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
Why More Information Won't Make Better Decisions
Large language models can answer almost anything. The real challenge is figuring out what to ignore. An excerpt from Biju Dominic’s new book ‘MicroStimuli’
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Biju Dominic
CEO and Co-Founder | Final Mile Consulting
The Machine That Must Not Kill
A Vatican encyclical on artificial intelligence offers India an unexpected framework to think about sovereignty, autonomous warfare, algorithmic governance and the human costs of unchecked AI systems
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Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
The Price of Intelligence
The final part in our series on the Future of Work and Agentic AI: why AI is changing the economics of intelligence itself
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Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
When Trust Becomes Infrastructure
Part 4 of The Future of Work and Agentic AI series: As agents begin working together, trust shifts from intelligence to standards, governance, and control.
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Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
When Intelligence is Taken for Granted, Behaviour is What Matters
Part 3 of The Future of Work and Agentic AI series: As intelligence becomes abundant, organisations stop hiring for capability and begin designing for behaviour.
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Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
When Work Runs on Two Minds
As human and machine learning begin to intersect, work is no longer shaped by a single reinforcement loop, but by the interaction of fundamentally different ones. Part 2 of an ongoing series on the Future of Work and Agentic AI.
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Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
The End of the Pageview: How Agentic AI is Forcing a Reckoning in Publishing
The media industry is confronting a stark new reality: survival in the AI era means abandoning the cybersecurity arms race and pricing content for machines instead of humans
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Founding Fuel
Managing the Human–AI Organisation
Six capabilities leaders need as AI enters everyday work
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Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
When AI Writes the Code, Who Guards the System?
As AI-assisted coding accelerates software development, enterprises face a new challenge: ensuring governance, accountability, and safety keep pace with machine-speed innovation
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Chirantan Ghosh
Seasoned technologist | Growth architect and business leader
The Knowledge Divide: How AI Will Reorganise Work, Margins, and Power
As AI agents embed intelligence into systems, the real shift is not automation—but how knowledge is owned, shared, and scaled across organisations
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Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
The Hallucination in the Room
When producing things is mistaken for thinking: AI hasn’t created this habit—it has simply made it faster and harder to spot. Revealing the gap between output and judgement inside organisations
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Moment
As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity
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Pankaj Saran
Convenor | NatStrat
·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Gambit: The Choices That Will Define Power
Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity
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Anatomy of a Prompt
On prompting, intent, and the discipline of asking well
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Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
·AI Ethics & Governance
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
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Crow Syndrome of AI
When machines, like humans, fail to see difference—and turn bias into code
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Chirantan Ghosh
Seasoned technologist | Growth architect and business leader
·AI Ethics & Governance
Are LLMs Just Clever Parrots?
Inside the growing chorus of doubt from AI’s own pioneers
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Shishir Prasad
Senior Business Journalist
·The Geopolitics of AI
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
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Rage of Parents
Around the world, families are fighting back against AI harms. Why is India still silent?
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
The Real Shifts Happening with AI
Notes from 'Reshuffle: Who Wins when AI Restacks the Knowledge Economy’, Sangeet Paul Choudary's new book
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Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
·AI Ethics & Governance
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?
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Love of One’s Tongue in the Age of AI
AI can speak in dozens of tongues — but often thinks in just one. Why India must lead in building systems fluent in its own realities
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·AI Ethics & Governance
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?
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Gambit
What will it take for India to lead, not just react, in the age of AI? An exclusive Founding Fuel - NatStrat Live session
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Founding Fuel
·AI Ethics & Governance
When AI Cheats Its Creators
Deception is no longer a human trait. AI has learned it too
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·AI Ethics & Governance
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
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Gambit: Exploring Our Strategic Options
How India can shape, not just follow, the global rules of AI governance
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
Our extended minds and AI notetakers
Transcription tools enhance our intelligence, allow us to revisit conversations and glean insights we might have missed, and share knowledge with extended teams. Here's what you need to know to select the right one for you
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·The New AI Enterprise Architecture
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
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·AI Ethics & Governance
AI in Health and Biology: The Good, Bad and Ugly
AI can detect disease and find medicines which no doctor can. It can also develop biological weapons which do not exist on the earth
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·AI at Work
AMA: How to make AI work for you?
Tanuj Bhojwani and Anmol Shrivastava answer questions on how to make AI a part of your lives
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Founding Fuel
·AI Ethics & Governance
At the top and bottom of the AI debate
Along the march of AI, two issues need attention: one is of regulation. The other, equally critical, is ensuring that the poor can access and learn the best and latest tech
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
AI natives are here. Are you keeping up?
Are you adapting, exploring, or waiting for change to push you forward?
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
AI’s Best-Kept Secret: It’s Not the Tools, It’s You
In a world brimming with AI possibilities, it’s easy to get lost in the hype. But the magic is not in the perfect tools, it’s in using them thoughtfully. Whether you’re a beginner or already well-versed, the key is to start simple and experiment boldly. Like learning to ride a bike, the more you engage, the more natural it will feel. Here’s how I am learning
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Anmol Shrivastava
Entrepreneur, strategist, and technology consultant
·AI at Work
FF Daily #554: Humans vs. AI
December 21, 2021: The rot in education; Why the latest Spiderman movie matters; Relativity for dummies
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Founding Fuel
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
FF Daily #514: When humans and AI work together
November 3, 2021: Solving climate crisis needs new tools; The cult of haters; Truth tellers
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Founding Fuel
·AI Ethics & Governance
FF Daily #512: Scams and heists in the world of AI and remote working
November 1, 2021: Mark Zuckerberg on the metaverse; Air India’s Maharaja; Stay quiet
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Founding Fuel
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