Vikram Chandra

Journalist, tech enthusiast, investor. Presenter of The India Story. Founded @editorji (acquired by RPSG in 2020). TV news anchor in an earlier avatar!

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

The very welcome @DarioAmodei post calling for an AI slowdown touches on some of the concepts I referred to a couple of days ago.

"Recursive self improvement" is perhaps the AI capability we need to be the most careful about, because it could lead to a superintelligence explosion.

If that happens without "alignment", it is an existential threat.

And it is tough to judge "alignment" without interpretability - ie the ability to monitor what the AI is thinking.

He has clearly identified the problem. Now let's hope @openai and @GoogleDeepMind join him in pushing for a solution.

For more on these concepts do watch this. 👇

https://t.co/tdxtz4zRQC

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

@webhuv1 exactly - our own habits don’t help but the bots fan it

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

It’s very possible that 2 separate CCP operations were exposed in the same week.

The whole world is talking about the Jensen episode, but 150 Chinese “influencers” filming filth in Dhaka and showing it as India?

Who is behind this?

Sure, there is enough filth and garbage in India - which MUST be cleaned up. We owe that to ourselves.

But it’s also clear that there is a systematic attempt to circulate shock videos of unhygienic food ans horrible squalor in India - a lot of which is created by AI.

Is it just engagement farming - or is there a well thought out plan behind it?

The theory below by @KutnitiFNDTN merits investigation. And kudos to Bangladeshi media - particularly Prothom Alo for exposing this “Filthtrap”.

[Kutniti Foundation @KutnitiFNDTN]

🇨🇳Chinese in 🇧🇩Bangladesh are not shooting videos to publish them.
They are shooting videos to train AIs.

In 2026, why would you send hundreds of people recording thousands of hours of videos on the exact same topic?

Let's look at the biggest campaign against India, the street food videos:
1. At the beginning they used to be real videos, shot in India.
Is it possible to find an unhygienic street food vendor in India? Yes, there are many. They won't wash their hands, use expired milk, fake paneer... But all that is not very graphic.
2. So, they had to pay street food vendors to make them do weird things like rolling rotis on their belly or warming food under their armpit.
3. But now the street food videos against India are all AI made because the dataset exists. With AI they can make the food vendor bath in boiling oil, show an army of rats running around... We publish, on this page, the most popular ones every month and they are more viral than ever. They easily cross the 100 MILLION views mark.

Today if you ask people abroad what India is known for, they will say dirty food.

Yes, these videos in the streets of Bangladesh will be used today for live streams (very popular format in China).
But the real goal is to train AI on them to be able to generate any content needed the day an information war against India (or another South Asian country) will be needed.

Note: Kutniti Foundation is the only entity in India operational on PsyOps / Narrative Warfare / Asymmetric Warfare

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

@waitbutwhy Your post on AI a decade ago has basically shaped my views on AI risk ever since!

So do tell me what you finally conclude! 😃

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Alarming ⚠️ Pollution is directly triggering a big spike in heart attacks and cardiac problems in Delhi NCR, says India’s most renowned cardiovascular surgeon Dr Naresh Trehan.

Make it a point to listen to this clip:

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

@TEJINDE52441549 yes i just said that. And cleaning up is on us - china or no china

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

@OzonizerR there i agree completely

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

@GabbbarSingh Yoga air for the whole house. Sharp for an individual room.

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

@aravind I basically don’t trust @OpenAI at all. So no access to any files - just what i put into the chat or say verbally. Hopefully that is safe enough!

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

Have any of you used dot from @OpenAI?

Being trying it out and seems like an EA on steroids!

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

@soumitrashukla9 @OpenAI i don’t want it to send emails on my behalf though

[Kutniti Foundation @KutnitiFNDTN]

🇨🇳Chinese in 🇧🇩Bangladesh are not shooting videos to publish them.
They are shooting videos to train AIs.

In 2026, why would you send hundreds of people recording thousands of hours of videos on the exact same topic?

Let's look at the biggest campaign against India, the street food videos:
1. At the beginning they used to be real videos, shot in India.
Is it possible to find an unhygienic street food vendor in India? Yes, there are many. They won't wash their hands, use expired milk, fake paneer... But all that is not very graphic.
2. So, they had to pay street food vendors to make them do weird things like rolling rotis on their belly or warming food under their armpit.
3. But now the street food videos against India are all AI made because the dataset exists. With AI they can make the food vendor bath in boiling oil, show an army of rats running around... We publish, on this page, the most popular ones every month and they are more viral than ever. They easily cross the 100 MILLION views mark.

Today if you ask people abroad what India is known for, they will say dirty food.

Yes, these videos in the streets of Bangladesh will be used today for live streams (very popular format in China).
But the real goal is to train AI on them to be able to generate any content needed the day an information war against India (or another South Asian country) will be needed.

Note: Kutniti Foundation is the only entity in India operational on PsyOps / Narrative Warfare / Asymmetric Warfare

[Arun Pudur @arunpudur]

⚡ One after another, 🇧🇩 Bangladeshi media outlets are exposing 🇨🇳 Chinese streamers walking through local slums and falsely presenting them as 🇮🇳 India.

Since 2023, numerous streamers have reportedly been filming in Bangladesh, even entering people’s homes, while portraying the

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

@MohanCRaja Ordering right away, @MohanCRaja !

[Lizard King 🇧🇩🕉️ @TheLizardKing_X]

Almost 150 Chinese WeChat streamers came to Dhaka, Bangladesh & spent the entire day livestreaming while showing the city's slums. When locals noticed the unusual number they started investigating why so many of them were doing this. Turns out, they were presenting it as India

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

We will have to see what the full fallout of this episode will be.

Jensen Huang has been seen as absolutely central to Nvidia’s position as one of the most important companies in the world.

Let’s see what the investigation throws up…

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Nvidia, $NVDA, CEO Jensen Huang sends a company-wide email regarding his recently reported relationship with a Chinese spy.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Happy Diwali to all who celebrate the Festival of Light🪔🎇

[India's World @IndiasWorld_mag]

"Is India merely a forever rising power? Is it just a vast market and the world's most efficient back office? How does India's foreign policy elite reconcile the nation's grandeur with its stubborn, gritty realities of domestic economic underdevelopment and nation building? There are no easy answers. India resists easy categorisation, even for Indians."

@vikramchandra reads an excerpt from @HappymonJacob's latest book, 'India after Nonalignment,' during its launch at IIC, New Delhi, on 4th November 2026.

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

A very happy Diwali to all of you!

May your life be filled with love and light!
May there be prosperity and new beginnings!
May we always get to celebrate the victory of good over evil!

🙏🏼 🪔

[Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay]

$NVDA is now the cheapest it has been in a decade.

[Singapore in India @SGinIndia]

Dear @DDNewsHindi. Thank u for using our pictures. But we are @SGinIndia Singapore High Commission. Not Sri Lanka High Commission. Happy #Diwali #Deepavali #factcheck #goodjournalism. 🙏🙏 HC Wong