Shoma Chaudhury on why technology needs conscience, not just innovation

Across the world, a strange paradox is unfolding. Technology is advancing faster than at any point in human history. Artificial intelligence can now write, create, analyse, diagnose and increasingly participate in decisions once considered uniquely human. Yet the world’s capacity to think through the implications of that speed has not kept pace.

Governments, institutions and societies from Washington to Beijing to New Delhi are grappling with the same unresolved questions. Who is accountable when machines make decisions, what happens to human agency, how should power be regulated, and what does it mean to be human as the line between human and machine intelligence blurs.