Artificial Intelligence – ai, ai, ai

If human or natural intelligence is not enough to address whatever problems that ail modern societies, why not turn to Artificial Intelligence? The inexorable push for all things AI is now on. Several months ago, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog put out a proposal costing upwards of a billion dollars to create a national infrastructure for the promotion and adoption of AI techniques to resolve a variety of issues in the fields of agriculture, health, education, urbanisation and mobility. The presumed benefits of this proposal, if adopted, would be the addition of almost a trillion dollars to India's GDP and a 1.3% net increase in the annual growth rate by the year 2035. What would an India so transformed look like?