Why India needs a national AI strategist

Both China and the US have national AI strategies. The US 2025 AI plan stresses the national security imperative of maintaining “unchallenged global technological dominance”, focusing on dismantling regulation and environmental constraints of all types and promoting AI education and frontier AI science and manufacturing capabilities. This is in sharp contrast to the general approach to defunding science and education in the rest of the US economy. The Chinese AI 2025 Plan focuses on societal wide AI diffusion, after its 2017 AI plan emphasised building the foundations of the AI industry. Simultaneously with investing in AI capabilities, India needs an…