Art of War 2.0, new-age Sun Tzu: Why global consensus on AI is elusive without China’s participation.

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Synopsis
Multiple efforts are underway to arrive at a global consensus on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and a regulatory framework for the rapidly evolving technology. But in the era of hybrid warfare where AI is morphing as the technological equivalent of greatest military strategists, no discussion is complete without the active participation of China.

Last week, India hosted the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), a forum which aims to ‘foster international cooperation’ on the technology that is expected to change humankind forever. But even as the ‘New Delhi declaration’ saw all the 29 member-countries agreeing to collaborate to shape the future of AI and its governance, something was amiss in their collective voice. The dragon’s absence. China, which accounts for a chunk