{"id":992791,"date":"2026-02-17T08:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992791"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:33:01","slug":"ai-a-double-edged-sword-need-to-sharpen-edge-of-opportunity-top-science-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/ai-a-double-edged-sword-need-to-sharpen-edge-of-opportunity-top-science-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"AI a double-edged sword, need to sharpen edge of opportunity: Top science advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword, and the governance objective should be to sharpen the edge of opportunity while blunting the edge of risk, the government&#8217;s top science advisor said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Digital penetration has increased, and children are increasingly exposed to AI-driven platforms. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still do not fully know the long-term effects of growing up with AI companions, personalised learning apps, algorithm-driven feeds and synthetic media,&#8221; Principal Scientific Adviser Ajay Kumar Sood said in the national capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword, and the governance objective should be to sharpen the edge of opportunity while blunting the edge of risk, the government&#8217;s top science advisor said on Monday. &#8220;Digital penetration has increased, and children are increasingly exposed to AI-driven platforms. &#8220;We still do not fully know the long-term effects of growing up with AI companions, personalised learning apps, algorithm-driven feeds and synthetic media,&#8221; Principal Scientific Adviser Ajay Kumar Sood said in the national capital.<\/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-992791","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\/992791","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=992791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}