Sovereign AI, American law

<p>India is spending over 10,000 crore rupees building what it calls sovereign AI. The servers are going up in Mumba and the ministers are saying the word at every summit. </p><p>There is just one problem: nobody has defined what sovereign actually means.  And the chips powering all of it are American, subject to American law. A US subpoena can reach a data centre in Mumbai as easily as one in Seattle. </p><p>In this edition of <a href="https://the-ken.com/newsletter/make-india-competitive-again/india-called-its-ai-sovereign-the-us-government-can-still-access-it/"><em>Make in India Competitive Again</em></a>, <em>The Ken</em> reporter Mrunmayee Kulkarni delves into what this really means.</p><p><em>Listen a free episode of The Ken's First Principles feat Riyaz Amlaani with Rohin Dharmakumar </em><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/first-principles/id1639125773?i=1000772625640"><em>here</em></a><em></em></p><p><strong><em>Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscriber-only business news platform. </em></strong><a href="https://the-ken.com/pricing/"><strong><em>Subscribe</em></strong></a><strong><em> for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories.</em></strong></p>