Executive Summary
The strategic discourse within India has increasingly coalesced around the concept of “decision superiority”, which is the ability to make effective decisions faster than an adversary or market competitor. In the context of national security, this is driven by systemic instability in the neighbourhood and the unprecedented velocity of military adaptation by rivals. In the corporate and economic spheres, it is driven by a chaotic, price-sensitive market and a linguistic landscape of immense complexity. The prevailing techno-optimist narrative suggests that the accumulation of data, processed by high-speed Artificial Intelligence (AI), will automatically yield this superiority. This report challenges that assumption.
