{"id":986310,"date":"2026-01-19T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986310"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:45:03","slug":"why-ai-readiness-rankings-are-misleading-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/why-ai-readiness-rankings-are-misleading-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Why AI readiness rankings are misleading India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986310","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=986310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}