India, Sept. 20 -- As AI begins helping to build its successors, some of its creators are warning of potentially catastrophic risks. Donald Trump says America cannot afford to slow down. Where does this leave India?

On September 17, a disclosure from San Francisco put startling numbers behind a question that until recently sounded like science fiction: what happens when artificial intelligence begins helping to build better artificial intelligence? Anthropic, the company behind Claude, revealed that its AI now "leads" 26 per cent of the company's AI research and development work, carrying out most of a task from a high-level instruction while a human remains in a supervisory role. Earlier this year, that figure was below one per cent. Mo...