Srinagar, June 20 -- If the preceding Industrial Revolutions went hand in hand with the nation-state, the ongoing Fourth Industrial Revolution appears to bypass the state altogether.

Defined by staggering advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), which has replaced computing power as the "game in town", the world is on the cusp of the "unknown unknown".

In this paradigm, even Moore's Law, which postulated that "the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years, while the cost of hardware (computers) is halved", seems to have been struck by the gale of "creative destruction".

But amid the AI 'blitzkrieg' that is leaving past techno-economic paradigms as 'roadkill', there are now growing calls for "AI sovereignty".

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