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Comment by Nandan Nilekani
Co-founder of Infosys; architect of India's Aadhaar digital identity system
There's a race to the top and a race to the bottom. And the race to the bottom is faster than the race to the top. [...] All of us who have a stake in AI being useful to humanity have to accelerate and redouble our efforts to make the diffusion happen. Otherwise, the consequences are going to be very difficult. Because there's going to be a backlash.
AI Verified
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(2026)
1mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
AI Verified
Verified via web search (BusinessToday returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch). The article and corroborating sources (Outlook India, Business Standard, Daily Pioneer) confirm Nandan Nilekani (Infosys co-founder, Aadhaar architect) said at the AI Impact Summit 2026 (Feb 19, 2026): "There's a race to the top and a race to the bottom. And the race to the bottom is faster than the race to the top," and "all of us who have a stake in AI being useful to humanity have to accelerate and redouble our efforts to make the diffusion happen," warning of a backlash otherwise. Author attribution and year (2026) are correct, and source_url is the primary source. The "for" vote on "economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth" aligns with his emphasis on diffusing AI's benefits broadly (to a billion people) and making AI useful to humanity.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 2d ago
replying to Nandan Nilekani