Dr Urvashi Aneja on checks and balances in the age of AI | It’s time for a radical rethink

The current model of AI development concentrates power in the hands of a few commercial players. What we need is a new model that puts public interest at the centre

(Illustration: Nilanjan Das | AI)

Since the launch of ChatGPT last year, AI has captured the public imagination. Popular narratives oscillate between unbridled enthusiasm about AI’s potential to advance societal progress and doomsday scenarios about the existential risks it poses to humankind.