India is rewriting rules of AI governance, giving it open sky while keeping command in human hands
Published on: Feb. 24, 2026, 7:23 a.m. | Source: The Indian Express
Under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, the first Global South nation to host the global AI summit series did not merely convene a conversation, but laid out the terms on which it intends to compete: A Delhi Declaration that rewrites the rules of AI governance, digital infrastructure processing nearly half the world’s real-time payments, investment commitments in the hundreds of billions, sovereign models built from scratch, and entry into the supply chain security architecture of the AI age
