India is hosting a massive global AI Impact Summit between Feb 16-20, with over 20 Heads of State, 60 ministers, and around 500 global AI leaders attending. There is huge optimism, driven by the government, about India being at the forefront of the defining technology of this century. Many view AI as the 21st century’s equivalent of the steamship or the aeroplane in the 20th. However, it is worth examining what AI actually entails and the less visible costs associated with it.
