As the United States and China battle to dominate artificial intelligence , this week India attempted to highlight other pathways to navigate the silicon surge. Billed as the first high-level AI gathering to be held in the Global South, the India AI Impact Summit has given the world's most populous country a stage to promote itself as a global AI player, broadening the AI conversation to include countries in Latin America, Africa and beyond. “Long term, it’s good for the world that AI is not