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The editorial frames AI as both a product of human ingenuity and a potential menace, highlighting weaponisation, deepfakes, cybercrime, and intrusive surveillance. It also emphasizes creativity and human agency behind AI’s evolution, setting an uncertain yet thoughtful tone for understanding, theorising, and evaluating the technology’s impact.","FRONTLINE  \nJULY 15, 2026 • LEADING THE DEBATE SINCE 1984 • WWW.FRONTLINE.THEHINDU.COM • ₹150  \nFRONTLINE  \nhttps://telegram.me/MagazineE  \nAmarvel that's also a menace  \n11/AI possibly represents the summit of human ingenuity.But it is also an evil geniethat,if left unchecked,could push humanity off a cliff.  \n45/Creativity:Creativity on steroids51/Ownership:The creator is dead59/Warfare:Machines shape themunitions  \nRELATED STORIES  \n17/Sovereignty:How to build an Indiemodel  \n25/Democracy:Is it the endof community?  \n67/Education:Interview withSaikat Majumdar  \n33/Ethics:Ethical AI needs conscienceprompt  \n72/Relationships:Downloadsome love  \n39/Labour:I labour,therefore I am  \nPUBLICHEALTH  \nIMMIGRATION  \nUK's immigration  \nWhat NFHS-6  \npanic is an identity  \ndoesn't tell us  \ncrisis  \nPOLITICS  \n77/End of the road for  \nregional parties?  \nECONOMY  \n81/Whose war is it anyway?  \nWORLD AFFAIRS  \n85/A war that rewrote theplaybook  \nCULTURE  \n93/Nehru,Guru Dutt,andthe demise of a tender India  \nBOOKS  \n97/In review  \n08/The Fortnight  \nSHART STORY  \n109/The question of style  \nCOLUMNS  \n91/Guest column:Anil  \nRaman  \n07/Letters  \n108/On our bookshelf  \n112/Staying in  \n113/Stepping out  \n114/Back Page  \nCover llustration:Aadvik Singh  \nSUSTAINABILITY  \nIs Andhra Pradesh's  \ndata centre push a  \nrecipe for disaster?  \nsrael uses AI to hunt andkill humans.Its army hasan AI-powered targetingsystem called Habsorathat identifies andgenerates attacks on up to  \n100 targets a day,which ofteninclude homes,women,children.There is also an automated systemthat tracks targets when they entertheir homes,then triggers strikes sothat entire families are hit.  \nBesides such weaponisingapplications,AI also generatesdeepfakes for pornography,politicalblackmail,social unrest,cyberscams,and worse.Then there arehighly intrusive surveillance systems(such as the notorious Pegasus),used by government and privateentities,that go far beyond securityand crime prevention.  \nOn the other hand,AI is thealmost god we now worship becauseof the invisible,intangible ways inwhich it allows words and images,  \nbooks and music,  \nmachinery and  \ninventions,recipes  \nand blueprints,all  \nthings once  \npainstakingly  \nman-made,to  \napparate in front  \nof our disbelieving  \neyes with the  \nwave ofa  \nprompt.  \nThere is no  \ndoubt there is  \nsomething magical  \nabout AI.As it vaults  \nover more complex  \nhurdles of human achievement eachday,it is reaching heights that leaveus ordinary creatures airless anddizzy.Yet,it is the human mind thatpowers AI.It is human creativity andendeavour,human imagination andambition that gave birth to AI andthat relentlessly push it up theladder of evolution.  \nS WE MAKE it more  \nadvanced,more like us,asgood as us and as evil as us,we are also afraid.Because thistechnological leap has gone beyondcode and mechanics into the realmof the unknown,into aspects ofsentience and thought that we didnot think we would ever get tomeddle with.And yet,here we are.At the cusp of a new kind of world,anew order of being,one that is sounprecedented we are not able tofully grasp it yet.When we lookback,we may well think of 2026 asthe year we fully accepted that aprotean force now sits beside us inour homes,beds,and office chairs.  \nIt seemed rather apposite,therefore,to dedicate this SpecialIssue of Frontline to AI,tounderstanding,thinking,andtheorising about it,admiring butalso cautious,hopeful but alsoanxious.Our Consulting Editor(Digital)Brinda Vasudevan put ittogether with a set of absolutelyfantastic writers and one talentedyoung designer-cartoonist.  \nN  \nInside  \nFRONTLINE  \nLEADING THE DEBATE SINCE 1984  \nEditor Vaishna Roy  \nManaging Editor Vasanth Srinivasan  \nBUREAUS  \nChennai  \nSr Associate Editor R.K.Radhakrishnanlangovan RajasekaranBengaluru Vikhar Ahmed SayeedDelhi TK.Rajalakshmi(Chief of Bureau)Anand Mishra(Political Editor)Soni Mishra,Ashutosh SharmaHyderabad Ayesha MinhazKolkata Suhrid Sankar ChattopadhyayMumbai Amey Tirodkar  \nWith","cbCaigh7PdEKbQgx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigh7PdEKbQgx","pdf",33794461,9,1,81,"English","en",105,"# Public Health\n## Immigration\n# Politics\n## End of the road for regional parties?\n# Economy\n## Whose war is it anyway?\n# World Affairs\n## A war that rewrote the playbook\n# Culture\n## Nehru, Guru Dutt, and the demise of a tender India\n# Books\n## In review\n# Columns\n## Guest column\n## Letters\n## On our bookshelf","[{\"question\":\"How does the editorial describe the main promise and danger of AI?\",\"answer\":\"It presents AI as a leap enabled by human ingenuity that can also become a menace if unchecked. 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