India, Feb. 19 -- At a high-stakes fireside chat during the India AI Impact Summit 2026, two architects of the digital age, Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder of Infosys and the force behind Aadhaar, and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, met to discuss the widening chasm between AI's raw capability and its real-world diffusion.

Moderated by Rahul Matthan, the conversation steered clear of the typical AGI rhetoric, focusing instead on the adolescence of the technology and India's unique experience in scaling digital infrastructure for billions.

Dario Amodei addressed the duality of modern AI during the session. While models like Claude are reaching what he calls the exponential phase of genius-level capability in software and biomedicine, the soc...