India, Oct. 31 -- Something unusual is happening at the frontier of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The industry is racing to build more powerful systems, while some of the people closest to that race are warning that control may not be keeping pace.

In September, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged frontier AI companies to slow the advance of model capabilities, a position publicly supported by Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Yet the race itself is hardly slowing. PwC estimates that annual data centre capital expenditure will reach roughly $800 billion in 2026.

That tension exposes the question the industry now has to answer. Are we becoming better at building powerful AI faster than we are becoming better at controlling it?

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