AI ‘decisive lever’ for 8% economic growth rate: NITI Aayog CEO

India has the opportunity to harness artificial intelligence (AI) as a decisive lever to achieve accelerated economic growth and realise the vision of ‘Viksit Bharat‘, according to the roadmap released by NITI Aayog and Niti Frontier Tech Hub on Monday in New Delhi.

The report, titled “AI for Viksit Bharat: The Opportunity for Accelerated Economic Growth”, outlines how AI adoption across industries and transformation of research and development (R&D) can bridge nearly half of the growth gap required to move India from a projected GDP of $6.6 trillion…