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भारत में परिवर्तन India in Transition (Hindi)

About IiT

India in Transition (IiT), allows scholars from all over the world, the opportunity to exchange various analyses and innovative ideas about India's current status and growth.

IiT presents brief, analytical perspectives on the ongoing transformations in contemporary India based on cutting-edge research in the areas of economy, environment, foreign policy and security, human capital, science and technology, and society and culture. A Hindi, Bangla, and Tamil translation accompanies each published article.

In addition to appearing on CASI's website, IiT articles are published in India-based outlets Scroll.in, The Hindu: Business Line, and Amar Ujala. Past issues have appeared in the op-ed pages of the Indian newspapers Hindustan and Livemint. All viewpoints, positions, and conclusions expressed in IiT are solely those of the author(s) and not specifically those of CASI.

India as the “AI Use Case Capital of the World”: Socio-Economic Development as AI Hype

Mila T. Samdub

April 28, 2025

In February 2023, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on citizens to “identify ten problems of the society that can be solved by AI.” In 2024, Nandan Nilekani, the IT czar who has been a driving force behind India’s digital journey over the past fifteen years declared that India would soon become the “A