Trump, Biden moves steer India's AI policy

Meity considers options as Trump's Stargate, Biden's chip order spur fears

- Shouvik Das

A succession of executive orders by the outgoing and the new presidents of the United States have left India's artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor businesses and the nation's policymakers worried. It only underscores the need for locally developed core technologies for economic prosperity, while relying on diplomacy to tide over the immediate risk.

On 14 January, former president Joe Biden signed an executive order segregating nations as friendly, neutral and hostile to protect US-designed chips that power global innovation in AI. India was ranked as a neutral, limiting the number of chips that can be bought by India from US-origin companies such as Nvidia.