Indian data centers, GCCs and IT services firms are set up to run more agentic AI workloads for Western clients than any country outside the US. That fact hasn’t yet made its way into how India enacts its AI regulation. Most of the global debate is still about pacing frontier labs in Silicon Valley or writing rules for the companies that build the models. India should be asking a different question: what happens to a country actually running these systems, once liability starts following the operator instead of the AI maker?
A focus on the maker is necessary but not remotely sufficient. And the natural course globally will be to start looking for “choke points” where AI is and can be controlled. India should get ahead of it rather than wait for Washington or Brussels to decide.
