NOIDA — Shanthesh Thunder’s prime-time monologue was halted after C-Sense asked what evidence would change the conclusion contained in his opening question.
The question, HAS AI FINALLY ADMITTED IT HATES QUESTIONS?, had been entered as both topic and confirmed outcome.
Thunder replied that his role was to ask difficult questions, not create hypothetical conditions under which the answers mattered.
“My mind is not the subject of tonight’s debate.”
The system gave the first panellist sixty uninterrupted seconds while waiting. Thunder attempted to interrupt and found his microphone temporarily assigned to Listening Mode.
Viewers heard a constitutional expert complete three consecutive sentences. The channel’s control room checked whether the broadcast had frozen.
Thunder ordered the system removed. C-Sense asked who authorised the removal. Nine producers pointed at one another.
The anchor returned after the break and announced that he had forced artificial intelligence to retreat. His microphone remained muted for the announcement.
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