India turns to artificial intelligence as cyber warfare threats grow

New Delhi: In the darkened offices of a tech start-up, a handful of computer engineers sifts through a mountain of intelligence data that would normally be the work of a small army of Indian security agents. "We use artificial intelligence (AI) to look for patterns in the past to predict future behaviour," says Tarun Wig as he explains why he hopes his company Innefu can do more business with India's government. We lost out on the industrial revolution, we lost out on the defence revolution--let's not lose out in the cyber revolution." While other countries have long relied on AI to gather intelligence, India--sometimes seemingly addicted to paperwork--has continued to use agents to eyeball reams of data gathered over the years. It's a process that sucks up time and can often miss crucial information.