India, April 7 -- India is not deciding whether to regulate Artificial Intelligence. That ship has sailed. Instead, we are already regulating AI-through a series of backdoors and stop-gap rules that risk locking the country into a system that is simultaneously overbearing for innovators and ineffective for citizens.

The real danger to India's tech future isn't a lack of a law; it is the "sovereign confusion" being baked into policy. We are attempting to regulate 21st-century intelligence with 19th-century mentalities designed for static databases. Nations do not lose technological races because they lack talent. They lose them because they confuse control with clarity. India is dangerously close to doing both.

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