Finally, the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) set up by the government of India has submitted its preliminary recommendations, pending a detailed report. The set of recommendations, submitted last week, has raised many eyebrows as to the extent of work done by a group of experts drawn from across the academia, government and industry, with respect to the time consumed and the outcome, notwithstanding the delay by the government in setting up a committee to advise a strategy. While many countries driven by technology have put their act together as early as 2016 to capitalise on the development and focused their energies to make benefits for their countries, India had a slow start by the middle of last year and set up a committee of 19 experts. By then, most countries that have understood the importance of the new technology have progressed to a good extent to be ahead of the curve by working on to: 1) evolve a strategy to nurture, promote and innovate the technology, and 2) regulate the technology before it overpowers the growth of the economy in any unwarranted manner. Most of these countries that ride on technologies have come up with strategies to deal with the emergence of AI by the middle of 2017.