The world’s largest-ever AI summit took place in India this week, with hundreds of thousands of people, including world leaders and CEOs of AI companies, descending upon New Delhi for six days.
It was the fourth in a series of summits that were initially designed as a place for governments to coordinate global action in the face of threats from advanced AI.
India’s technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at least 70 signatories were expected to commit to what has been dubbed the “Delhi Declaration” on AI at the summit. Few details were available about that declaration, except that it pledged that “AI’s promise is best realised only when its benefits are shared by humanity,” according to a European Union press release. Vaishnaw said the final draft would be released on Saturday, along with a full list of signatories.
China, the world’s second largest AI power and India’s strategic adversary, was all but absent from the summit, which fell on the same week as Chinese New Year.
And the White House made it clear in Delhi that the U.S. would reject any attempt to regulate AI at the global level. “We totally reject global governance of AI,” White House official Michael Kratsios said on Friday.
Official “frontier AI commitments” released during the summit made no overt mention of previous summits’ attempts to coordinate government action on addressing AI risks. Instead, a set of voluntary commitments announced by the Indian government emphasized the importance of sharing data on real-world AI usage and building mechanisms to improve AI in under-represented languages.
“Full global consensus on how to govern AI is a far cry from reality,” says Isabella Wilkinson, a research fellow at the British foreign affairs think-tank Chatham House. “The core issue is how to incentivize countries and companies to get around the same table … despite fragmented geopolitics, intense competition, and the drive for ever-more powerful and -profitable AI. None of this is particularly conducive to global cooperation.”
Why do I feel the declaration will be garbage and just allow tech bros to continue their bullshit.
Because the tech bros building it are guiding the conversion. Based on promises that we have no reason to assume they can deliver.
Few details were available about that declaration, except that it pledged that “AI’s promise is best realised only when its benefits are shared by humanity,” according to a European Union press release.
And the same tech bros threatening clueless politicians with even more outlandish lies:
Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, claimed the world might just be “only a couple of years away from early forms of superintelligence."
The article is pretty good at underscoring some of the other BS outside of the technical side of things
“We declare (moral) bankruptcy!”
Unfortunately they won’t be nearly that forthright
Attending the summit, Kratsios, the White House representative, addressed middle powers’ fears. “Real AI sovereignty means owning and using best-in-class technology for the benefit of your people,” he said. “Complete technological self-containment is unrealistic for any country, because the AI stack is incredibly complex. But strategic autonomy alongside rapid AI adoption is achievable, and it is a necessity for independent nations. America wants to help.”
“America is the only AI superpower willing and able to truly empower partner nations in your pursuit of meaningful AI sovereignty,” he went on. “American companies can build large, independent AI infrastructure, with secure and robust supply chains that minimize backdoor risk. They build it; it’s yours.”
… Are you fucking kidding me. America wants to help? America is being held hostage by these shitbag oligarchs. It needs help.
Also, American companies can build large, independent AI infrastructure, with secure and robust supply chains that minimize backdoor risk?
Who TF are you kidding with this bullshit. Nobody paying attention to any of the bullshit DOGE did (that we know about so far) under the anti-regulatory administration you work for. Given you’re the big AI policy guy, and you paved the path for everything DOGE did it in 2025, during your run in Trump’s first administration, this should really be considered your fault as much as it is Musk’s fault for taking the bait, and becoming the fall guy on behalf of you and your mentor Peter Thiel.
•2018: The White House promises to release government data to fuel the AI boom
What a brilliant fucking idea Michael Kratsios had in 2018, what could possibly go wrong?
•2025: DOGE’s access to federal data is ‘an absolute nightmare,’ legal experts warn
•2025: DOGE is putting the country’s data and computing infrastructure at risk, HKS expert argues
Cyber security expert Bruce Schneier worries that DOGE’s access to highly sensitive information is giving bad actors a chance to take advantage
But that’s the opposite of what Kratsios sez Merican tech is good at…? Is he lying? How could we ever know?
•2026: Government Data Breach Sparks Fears Millions May Need New Social Security Numbers
Yeah…, seems like pretty solid evidence these people don’t know what the fuck they’re doing, and they never have. Or alternatively, if they do, their interests are purely selfish. They never should have been trusted with power, and if they weren’t such sociopathic narcissists they wouldn’t be able to maintain a straight face while telling such bold faced lies to the rest of the world.
