India’s voice must be heard louder in the global artificial intelligence debate. Here’s why.

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The transformative economic benefits of the artificial intelligence (AI) genie will ensure that it won’t be put back in the bottle. But with the noise getting louder, AI could see more global regulation. In all of this, India’s voice must be heard, for both economic and geopolitical reasons.

There is a scene in James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day when Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator turns to a crying John Connor and asks, “What's wrong with your eyes?” If many eminent voices — from scientists to researchers to AI pioneers to whatever Elon Musk is — are to be believed, that is what the big AI debate distills down to. The ability to cry. To feel. To be human. To be alive even. This ain’t no hyperbole. “Mitigating the risk of