{"id":1041652,"date":"2026-10-08T08:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041652"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:52:25","slug":"existential-threats-join-bubble-fears-as-ai-mood-sobers-at-singapore-forums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/08\/existential-threats-join-bubble-fears-as-ai-mood-sobers-at-singapore-forums\/","title":{"rendered":"Existential threats join bubble fears as AI mood sobers at Singapore forums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Existential and financial risks posed by the artificial intelligence boom were top of mind for investors and policymakers at two conferences in Singapore on Wednesday, highlighting a cautious shift in mood around the AI trade. <\/p>\n<p>Concerns that once centred on frothy valuations have broadened into a wide swathe of fears, including autonomous systems slipping out of human control, AI-designed bioweapons and the possibility that massive spending on the technology may never pay off. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who tells you I&#8217;ve got absolute control over my autonomous agent&#8230; obviously doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s talking about. So loss of control is a real threat,&#8221; Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said at the Milken Institute Asia Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existential and financial risks posed by the artificial intelligence boom were top of mind for investors and policymakers at two conferences in Singapore on Wednesday, highlighting a cautious shift in mood around the AI trade. Concerns that once centred on frothy valuations have broadened into a wide swathe of fears, including autonomous systems slipping out of human control, AI-designed bioweapons and the possibility that massive spending on the technology may never pay off. &#8220;Anyone who tells you I&#8217;ve got absolute control over my autonomous agent&#8230; obviously doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s talking about. So loss of control is a real threat,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041676,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041652\/revisions\/1041676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}