AI safety meets OpenClaw – what India’s AI summit tells us
The Times Tech Podcast
Will Morley
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
As world leaders and tech bosses gather for India’s AI Impact Summit, Danny Fortson and Mark Sellman ask if these global summits are shaping AI or struggling to keep up with it? They also hear from Carina Prunkl, lead author of the new International AI Safety Report, about risks, jobs, autonomy and whether safeguards are keeping pace with technology. Plus, OpenAI snaps up viral agent OpenClaw.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Times Tech podcast where every week we unpack how technology is reshaping business, culture, and everyday life. |
| 0:13.6 | I am Danny Fortson out here in Silicon Valley and Katie is unfortunately not with us this week. |
| 0:20.5 | She is off, but representing the great city of London. |
| 0:24.8 | I am pleased to welcome back to the pod, my very able colleague, Mark Selman, the technology |
| 0:30.4 | correspondent for The Times. |
| 0:32.8 | Thank you for having me back, Danny. |
| 0:34.3 | Great to chat. |
| 0:35.1 | Great to have you. |
| 0:35.9 | So our big question this week is around |
| 0:38.9 | AI summits because as we are speaking, India is hosting the AI Impact Summit. Politicians, thinkers, |
| 0:46.6 | tech CEOs are all gathered there to discuss the future of tech. So we're asking who gets to shape |
| 0:54.0 | the future of AI, Silicon Valley or the rest of the |
| 0:57.4 | world? And more to the point, what is the purpose of AI summits anyway? Well, Danny, this is the fourth |
| 1:04.0 | AI summit. Yeah, count them. One, two, three, four. And it's, it's started to feel like, what, G20, |
| 1:10.4 | G7, ASEAN,an cop every kind of alphabet soup where |
| 1:15.8 | leaders get together they discuss geopolitics lots of pictures and and family photos and we're |
| 1:22.8 | wondering if we're ever the wiser or safer as a result of it. So yeah, I'm keen to know if this summit gives |
| 1:29.7 | his clues into how AI is evolving to. That's right. And later, you're going to hear an interview |
| 1:35.1 | that Katie and I did right before she left with one of the lead authors of the 26 International |
| 1:41.3 | AI Safety Report, Karina Prunkel, which is being presented at the summit. |
| 1:46.7 | So that should give us some insight into the topics being discussed. |
| 1:50.6 | But before we get into that, it is worth giving the broader context because not just these |
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