India, July 8 -- Artificial intelligence is redrawing the global map of power, opportunity and inequality. This is the central concern of the 2025 Human Development Report, which argues that the real question is no longer whether AI will shape the future, but who it will serve and who it will leave behind. It treats AI not as a futuristic abstraction but as a political, economic and moral fault line running through the heart of global development.

For India, the policy choices we make today will define our role in the decades to come, whether we rise as a sovereign innovator or remain a subservient user in the evolving architecture of digital power. The report discusses how despite technological breakthroughs,the rate of human progress i...