New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- What comes to mind, reading these sentences? "The challenge is not technical but political, requiring careful sequencing, clear communication, and sustained commitment." Or: "Private ownership is not rewarding innovation but collecting a toll on Victorian infrastructure while deferring the investment required to keep it functional. The technology has not changed. The ownership has-and the ownership is the problem."

Boredom first, probably. Policy writing can be sandpaper-dry. But something else might stand out too, at least to anyone who often interacts with artificial-intelligence models like ChatGPT or Claude. Prose produced by those AI tools has a distinctive smell. One telltale whiff is a love of contrasts: "no...