What Would a People-centred AI Policy for India Look Like?

Abstract

Digital sovereignty should not be measured by the government’s autonomy to impose its wishes on its own people, and technological leadership should not be measured by the number of start-ups, funds raised, or people unilaterally subjected to faulty artificial intelligence. Sovereignty and leadership in technology should mean developing appropriate solutions for real problems. This goal requires the government to prioritise public welfare and development over the short-term desires of large domestic capital and its own ideological moorings in neo-liberalism and surveillance.