AI Summit | NDTV Ind.AI Summit: Should AI Be Sovereign?

At the NDTV Ind.AI Summit, a high-level panel discussion explored the critical question: Should AI be sovereign? The session focused on whether artificial intelligence — now emerging as a new infrastructure of economic, strategic, and geopolitical power — should be controlled by national governments or driven primarily by global markets and private corporations. With India simultaneously hosting major policy-level AI deliberations nearby, the discussion emphasized the urgency of AI sovereignty for countries like India, where issues of data control, national security, innovation independence, and digital self-reliance are increasingly central to policy debates.