India, Feb. 16 -- The concentration of advanced artificial intelligence capabilities in a few nations could lead to a new era of global hegemony, one of the field's foremost experts in the domain has warned. Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, urged "middle powers" to form alliances, noting that if they are not "at the table", they risk being "on the menu". Speaking to Anirudh Suri on the podcast 'AI Futures: The Road to India AI Summit 2026', the University of Montreal professor -- regarded as one of the godfathers of AI -- discussed the risks outlined in the 2026 International AI Safety Report, the geopolitical implications of the US-China rivalry, and his expectations from the India AI Impact Summit, the first meeting of such scale in a G...