AI AS OUR COGNITIVE PARTNER

India will profit from partnering with AI to simulate futures, shape systems and solve complex challenges

- BY JAYANT SINHA

Today, most AI (artificial intelligence) users turn to these apps to summarise documents, answer technical questions or draft content. In contrast, a select group treats AI as a cognitive partner— using it to model complex systems, plan strategic scenarios and integrate insights across finance, governance, climate and technology.

This shift is far from cosmetic. Strategic users force AI models to engage at deeper levels: holding longer context windows, managing memory layers and performing multi-step reasoning across domains. As a result, these interactions are significantly heavier on computational resources—sometimes 5-10 times costlier than average usage—but they also stretch AI's capabilities in ways that pure engineering improvements cannot.