New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- Deploying AI for the people must cut through the hype so that "dashboard success" does not become "welfare failure," the head of one of the world's foremost economic research bodies has said, warning that scaling unproven artificial intelligence solutions can cause active harm - not just waste money.

As policymakers, researchers and tech leaders gather for "AI for Social Good" discussions on the second day of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Tuesday, Iqbal Dhaliwal, global executive director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), said the current obsession with app downloads and chat logs threatens to obscure the ultimate goal: improving human lives. Worse, it risks entrenching inequality, e...