From KYC to AI models: Is India losing its digital sovereignty? | In Focus Podcast
This podcast episode explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and national sovereignty in India. The authors discuss how digital frameworks like KYC and LLMs impact individual freedom and state-level policy independence.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing tension between rapid technological adoption and the need for regulatory frameworks that protect national interests.
Technology, and especially AI, are no longer just a tool for humans. Today they control our choices, shape our daily routines, and determine how we invest our energies. This is true at the level of the individual, and also at the level of the nation-state.
While at the individual level, the key question concerns freedom, for the nation-state, it’s more about sovereignty – does India get to independently decide its own policies, or are they pre-decided for it by other geopolitical actors?
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