Artificial Intelligence has the potential to add 1 trillion to India's economy in 2035 - The Financial Express

A new NITI Aayog working paper outlines a comprehensive strategy for AI adoption in India. Given many countries, including China and France, have formalised strategies even as the US powers through with AI research, Indian policymakers will do well to pay heed to NITI's recommendations. AI adoption, NITI says citing Accenture data, could add $957 billion to the $6,397-bn gross value added projected for 2035--a 15% boost. It says the maximum benefits in terms of growth, development and inclusion could accrue from five focus areas--healthcare, agriculture, education, urban-/smart-city infrastructure, transportation & mobility. Some AI adoption is already happening--Andhra Pradesh is using this to predict school dropout while NITI is working on the launch of a concept developed by Tata Memorial Centre that involves algorithms matching patient slides with images of oncopathology slides from a detailed dataset of annotated images--this will improve early detection even though India has just about 500 expert oncopathologists, that too concentrated in the large cities.