New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- Artificial intelligence has been a hot topic for the past two years, and even more so in recent weeks with the recent AI summit in Paris and the rise of China's DeepSeek. Since the arrival of ChatGPT in late 2022, governments around the world have been grappling with how to regulate AI in order to balance security with economic progress.

Now, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in an interview with the BBC has added more fuel to the fire by stated that he is worried about a "Bin Laden scenario" for AI where "rogue states" try to harm innocent people using the new technology.

"I'm always worried about the 'Osama Bin Laden' scenario, where you have some truly evil person who takes over some aspect of our modern life and u...