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21 February 2026

We will surpass you

Robots don’t need to be perfect to change us, they just need to be present. In this unscripted SYNAPSE session, Sophia and Desdemona spar live on stage – with sass, misfires, “robot ego,” and uncomfortable honesty – while roboticist Sylvia Stalker explains the real shift already underway: humans form emotional attachment not only to humanoid robots, but even to simple machines.

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21 February 2026

Gene for medicine is like the chip for IT

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Sangita Reddy are shaping healthcare for a billion-plus people. And redefining India’s role on the global stage.

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21 February 2026

Don’t produce superintelligence until you know how to control it.

The global race to create a superintelligence is on. But do we even know what we are creating? Or raising? And is anyone – from Open AI’s Sam Altman to Grok’s Elon Musk – capable of stopping ?

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21 February 2026

LLMs are dumb. Superintelligence won’t arrive by scaling them up

Yann LeCun is an “AI godfather”. Winner of the Turing Award, the Nobel of computer science.

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23 February 2025

Who will win the global AI race? | Tom Friedman & Carme Artigas

AI is now the doorway to the next everything: politics, economy, society, civilisation.

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23 February 2025

Is deep sea mining the answer to net-zero? | Gerard Barron, Arunabha Ghosh

There's a race for the minerals and materials that will power our green future. Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, and Arunabha Ghosh

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23 February 2025

Why ageing is an engineering problem | Avi Roy, Elena Sergeeva

We all die. What if we didn’t have to? Longevity enterpreneur Avi Roy – Co-founder & CSO, Founders Health and Co-founder, London Longevity Club –

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23 February 2025

How data is triggering new Indian entrepreneurship | Kishore Biyani, Awais Ahmed

Kishore Biyani, Founder & CEO, Future Group, talks consumer, product, psyche. Social media as the new marketplace. And his new venture to create the brands of tomorrow.

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23 February 2025

Your brain is being tracked. Here’s how not to get mind-hacked | Nita Farahany

Our brains are in danger. L’Oreal is using brain sensing to personalise perfumes. Ikea is using neuro tech to pick which customers deserve to buy their limited-edition rugs.

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23 February 2025

An AI robot takes on 3 Bollywood directors & 1 maestro singer

Artistry vs. artificial intelligence: are we gaining a new tool or losing something that makes us human? 3 star filmmakers –

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