AI summit: billions in investments and warning of the end of the world

Major US technology companies have investments of several hundred billion dollars in Artificial intelligence announced. Developing countries, on the other hand, are at risk of being left behind when it comes to technology.

The future of artificial intelligence should not be decided by a handful of countries or left to the whims of a few billionaires, warned the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday at the international AI summit in New Delhi.

Global AI Fund

Guterres called for the creation of a global AI fund to build essential capacities in economically disadvantaged countries. It should be endowed with3 billion dollars (around 2.5 billion euros) – Given the amount of money needed for infrastructure for the technology, this is more of a symbolic act.

In the Indian capital, heads of state and government, representatives of large companies and experts have been discussing the global impact of the technology at the “AI Impact Summit” since Monday and until today, Friday. Austria was appointed State Secretary for Digitalization Alexander Pröll represent.

The French President Emmanuel Macron defended European AI regulation and called for stricter safeguards following global outrage Tens of thousands of sexualized images of children generated using Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok. He was supported by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

For Modi, the summit is also an opportunity to position the country in the technology race. Numerous industry giants from the ChatGPT maker OpenAI about the chip manufacturer Nvidia up to Anthropic announced investments.Googlewhose boss Sundar Pichai attended the summit, announced the construction of new submarine cables. In total, more than $200 billion in AI investments are expected to flow into India.

Doomsday scenarios

It is the fourth event of this kind. As with previous summits in the UK Bletchley Park (2023), Seoul (2024) and Paris (2025) were allowed Doomsday scenarios not missing. The warnings about a super AI that could pose a danger to humanity are fueled by progress in the development of AI Agentswho can complete tasks independently.

OpenClaw from the Austrian developer also has this Peter Steinberger who recently joined OpenAI. The Canadian AI researcher Joshua Bengio spoke to the Handelsblatt of “enormous commercial pressure” on leading AI companies to bring such agents into the mass market. The fear of superintelligence is also often fueled by the large AI companies themselves. Also because it resonates with how powerful AI can be.

OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman This is probably one of the reasons why he warned against the misuse of technology by dictators, against the creation of new pathogens and against new types of wars. By the end of 2028, a larger share of the world’s intellectual capacity could lie inside data centers than outside, the OpenAI boss said, arguing for the creation of a global AI regulator modeled on the Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) aus.