Aydin Guven

India hosted one of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence summits in February. The India AI Impact Summit -2026 brought together heads of state, technology leaders, researchers, and policymakers in New Delhi to declare a “shared roadmap for global AI governance and collaboration”. With participation from over 110 countries, and hundreds of sessions, the summit was designed to signal something more than scale. It was meant to mark India’s role not just as a user of AI, but as a country...

Originally published on Global Policy on July 25, 2025. Aydin Guven examines India’s AI policy and its ambitious mission to become a “Global AI Garage,” exploring the gap between visionary rhetoric and the country’s practical readiness in AI governance. India’s bid to lead in artificial intelligence is torn between ambition and dependence. Despite bold visions like becoming a “Global AI Garage,” the country’s reactive policymaking and reliance on foreign hardware risk turning it into a...