Inside India’s AI Impact Summit: Robot fraud, gridlocked roads, and a no-show from Bill Gates

Yoshua Bengio, like many participants of India’s AI impact Summit, was running late. 

By 6 p.m., the New Delhi roads were too gridlocked for the deep learning pioneer, known as one of the “godfathers” of AI, to successfully make it to an event discussing the International AI Safety report he chaired. Instead, he delivered his address to the group gathered at the Canadian Embassy via a blurry video link. 

“We were stuck in a roadblock for 45 minutes,” Bengio explained amid apologies...