India, July 19 -- Gone are the times when defence would drive geo-politics, the seat has now been taken by technology. How do the tables re-arrange themselves in this new world? The equator of this world does change a lot when the lines of AI get horizontal instead of vertical - how? Purushottam Kaushik, Head, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum helps us to decipher the economics, politics and ethics of technology in this chat done at the Zinnov Confluence 2025 (where AI was explored from many dimensions, by many hats and through many interesting huddles).

AI is, for sure, the current talk of the town and dominating many discussions. My session at Davos and visits to China show the same pattern. But what is ...