Why India Needs a Strategic Artificial Intelligence Vision

India has traditionally been two steps behind other major powers when it comes to acknowledging the strategic importance of emerging technologies. China's attention to artificial intelligence (AI) based technologies and machine learning in the US, according to a recent Reuters report, has the US quite concerned. China has been heavily investing in American AI start-ups, alarming the US government enough for it to seriously consider strengthening its existing strategic foreign investment regulatory mechanism – the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The CFIUS was most recently by the Obama administration to block Chinese acquisitions of American chip manufacturing companies. China's focus on AI research and development is a calculated move clearly manifested in the intensity of its domestic investments.