Academic freedom, evidence-based policymaking, social inclusion, and transparent governance are the foundations of a scientific nation. India has neglected each of them.
They should be audited and safety-tested in advance, judged by their worst possible failure rather than average accuracy, and not investigated only after a notice like the one the government just sent Meta.
For the first time, the human species is confronted with a technology that can produce output resembling thought. AI is no longer an augmenter of human creativity; it can become a substitute for it.
The true threat of AI is not that it will eliminate human labour but that it will take us to the top of a ladder we will no longer remember how to climb.
The controversy over the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has exposed how AI has embedded itself into both the writing and judging of literary fictionโand the implications this holds for human creativity.
Indiaโs digital rise depended on foreign infrastructure and supply chains. AI is pushing energy, chips, and compute to the centre of the race, and India still lacks enough of all three.
At the Artificial Intelligence Impact Summit 2026, the message was clear: India wants to run your AI, not build its own modelsโa strategy that locks it into the lowest layer of the global stack.
Indiaโs six-day AI summit produced a US technology pact, a non-binding global declaration, and record investment pledges. Critics said the hard questions went unanswered.
From viral sensation to security flashpoint, here is a clear guide to OpenClaw, formerly Moltbot, the AI agent that promises a personal assistant and delivers serious risk along with it.