Why AI readiness rankings are misleading India
Every year, global AI readiness rankings make their predictable rounds through policy circles. Countries are scored, ranked, and colour-coded. Governments cite them in speeches. Ministries use them into strategy documents. Headlines celebrate small climbs up the table, as if intelligence itself were a league competition.
The underlying assumption is rarely questioned: artificial intelligence is something Governments acquire. That assumption is wrong. AI is not an asset a State accumulates, like foreign exchange reserves or computing infrastructure.
