{"id":1017986,"date":"2026-07-01T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017986"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:06:24","slug":"the-economics-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/the-economics-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"The economics of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI is no longer an emerging technology; it is becoming the defining economic force of the 21st century, shaping economic competitiveness, scientific discovery, military capability, and national power. Understanding its economics is therefore essential for policymaking. <\/p>\n<p>As Lionel Robbins famously observed, economics is the science of allocating scarce resources among competing ends. The economics of AI is no different. Every country must decide where to deploy limited capital, talent, and institutional capacity to maximise returns while managing risk. For India, this requires identifying where value is created within the AI economy and, more importantly, where it possesses a genuine comparative advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is no longer an emerging technology; it is becoming the defining economic force of the 21st century, shaping economic competitiveness, scientific discovery, military capability, and national power. Understanding its economics is therefore essential for policymaking. As Lionel Robbins famously observed, economics is the science of allocating scarce resources among competing ends. The economics of AI is no different. Every country must decide where to deploy limited capital, talent, and institutional capacity to maximise returns while managing risk. For India, this requires identifying where value is created within the AI economy and, more importantly, where it possesses a genuine comparative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018025,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017986\/revisions\/1018025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}