02/03/2026
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Towards Reimagining India’s Role in the AI World Order
An article by Ms Debjani Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, NITI Aayog and former President, NASSCOM, titled “Five Structural Shifts in AI World Order,” highlights that India stands at a defining inflection point in the global AI landscape. For the first time, India convened global AI leaders — policymakers, builders, researchers, and industry voices — not merely to discuss foundational research, but to shape applications, governance, and real-world deployment.
The article discusses key shifts in AI, noting that the frontier lies in ownership of compute power and access to digital infrastructure. The AI Impact Summit 2026 marked a pivot towards applied intelligence at population scale, emphasizing sovereignty in digital public infrastructure and AI capability. AI conversations are moving beyond experimentation towards mass deployment, focusing on translating innovation into inclusive growth and measurable public value.
While global AI platforms continue to dominate, India holds a unique advantage in deploying AI at population scale through its digital public infrastructure, multilingual talent pool, and development-first policy stance. Globally, AI’s credibility increasingly depends on how economies manage workforce transitions — including skilling, entrepreneurship, and institutional capacity-building. The emerging AI order therefore demands alignment across deployment, skills, workforce development, and geopolitics, guided by the principles of people, planet, and progress.
The article concludes that leaders will be judged not by demos, but by diffusion — signalling a deeper structural shift in the global AI order.
🔗 Read more: https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion/2026/Feb/28/five-structural-shifts-in-new-ai-order
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