AI FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE & INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

As the Indian government works to establish and portray the nation as a world leader in AI technology manufacturing, artificial intelligence technologies have prompted a variety of legislative reactions in India. Reactions from policymakers have varied from nationalizing datasets to facilitate Big Data analysis using AI to offering public infrastructure to support market-led AI manufacturing. This study looks at the recent history of AI policy in India from the standpoint of critical political economy. It makes the case that AI policy and governance in India legitimizes and constructs a globally dominant paradigm of informational capitalism, which is based on the idea that data is a productive resource for information-based economic production and that firms should self-regulate any negative effects. At the same time, it aims to give the state a strong hand in deciding how such a market is structured and for what purposes through infrastructure and legislation.