Survey bats for application-led AI over capital-intensive models

The Economic Survey has pitched artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool for solving real economic and governance challenges rather than a technology race centred on building large, capital-intensive models, stating that India’s advantage lies in pragmatic, application-led deployment rather than scale alone.

In a dedicated chapter on AI, the Survey says India should leverage its late-mover position to adopt AI in a calibrated manner that aligns with its economic structure, institutional capacity and resource constraints.