India, June 9 -- Supreme Court bans AI for judges: Why the public is still trapped in the machine

Washington, DC - India is entering a technological utopia. In the first half of 2026, a wave of capital has flooded our tech sector. The government just announced a $1.1 billion venture fund for AI. The Adani Group has committed $100 billion to build AI data centres. Planning started for Smart Borders, Blackstone just dropped $600 million on a single Indian AI startup, Neysa.

But if you look closely at what these billions of dollars are actually building, a much darker picture emerges.

In a nicely written book of year 2018, Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks warned us that when massive institutions digitise, they don't democratise. In...