India will need to expand strategic autonomy and control over hardware connected to artificial intelligence (AI) and biometric authentication systems, electronics and information technology secretary S Krishnan said on Friday.
“When you’re such a large market and so reliant on various devices then you also need to have some degree of strategic autonomy. This is a concern not just for India. Europe and the US do it. We’ve started doing it in some sectors like telecom, and for CCTV cameras. We may have to expand it to a few more areas particularly in the context of AI,” Krishnan said at an event organised by policy think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research.
