PM Modi wants to make AI work for India: We need a cogent policy for that

India needs to wake up before it's too late and formulate a cogent policy for innovation in artificial intelligence

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to be an optimist when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and what it can do for people, a view not shared by everybody -- last year, Elon Musk had said that AI needed regulation as it posed a "fundamental risk to the existence of human civilisation". 

PM Modi, on the face of things, appears to echo what Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said about AI: "...I am optimistic...." However, the Prime Minister's understanding of the benefits of AI involves an important caveat: that its future will depend upon and be driven by