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Can India’s Balanced Approach to AI Regulation Foster Innovation Without Stifling Progress?
The Economic Times
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Since its explosion into the mainstream around 2022, AI has inspired speculation, hope, fear, and an equal measure of utopianism and dystopianism. AI was almost immediately flagged as a threat by competition enforcers in the US, Britain and the EU, despite the nascent sector being demonstrably dynamic, competitive and innovative.
Breaking from this tendency for irrational fear, CCI chose to study AI, rather than immediately move to endorse its regulation. CCI’s September 2025 report, Market Study on Artificial Intelligence and Competition, marks a prudent and welcome departure from the premature, heavy-handed approach adopted in other jurisdictions.