Success of home-grown AI rests on unglamorous capability-building: Dr. Subhabrata Majumdar

In the op-ed ‘ISRO to AI: A playbook for sovereign capability’, Dr. Subhabrata Majumdar, Decision Sciences area, IIMB, IAS Binod Kumar and Prof. Kanadpriya Basu, George Mason University, assess whether India can extend ISRO’s philosophy of “build it yourself; make it work” to the fast-paced terrain of artificial intelligence. Using the launch of the Indian AI Research Organisation (IAIRO) as a point of departure, the piece co-authored for Deccan Herald, distils three lessons – ‘frugality’, ‘patience’, and ‘strategic self-reliance’ and questions their applicability in an AI ecosystem defined by speed, openness and global competition for talent.