Maha Kumbh 2025: Maha Kumbh 2025: India uses AI to stop stampedes at world’s biggest gathering

Keen to improve India’s abysmal crowd management record at large-scale religious events, organisers of the world’s largest human gathering, Maha Kumbh 2025, are using artificial intelligence to try to prevent stampedes.Organisers predict up to 400 million pilgrims will visit the Kumbh Mela, a millennia-old sacred show of Hindu piety and ritual bathing that began Monday and runs for six weeks.

Deadly crowd crushes are a notorious feature of Indian religious festivals, and the Kumbh Mela, with its unfathomable throngs of devotees, has a grim track…