How Can India Trump China In Higher Education Reforms For AI

India has many milestones to achieve if it is to catch up with China, concluded a study published by the Observer Research Foundation, that offered a comparative analysis between the two in terms of higher education reforms for the development of talent in artificial intelligence (AI) and its research. The study, which compared various parameters including AI development plans and strategies of the two countries, their automation readiness index, talent retention, and research output, found China and India to have a very evident difference in their approach to bring reforms in higher education for AI. "Countries' strength in AI will potentially impact their position in the power structure in international politics in the long term," said Dr Romi Jain, author of the study and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia. "From the geopolitical perspective, acquisition of robust AI capabilities could even shape the contours and outcomes of Sino-Indian conflict, competition and rivalry." As both countries introduce AI degree programmes in higher education, the results are too premature to be judged.