Dr. Deepak Padmanabhan:

I will say something about the general picture of AI. When we talk about AI, we think of it as a huge product which can only be built by the private corporations. AI tends to bring up questions of privatisation because it is always a private company which would sell us the service. We ought to mind that the technology is socially constructed in the sense that a technology that is built elsewhere may not be applicable as much to the concrete realities of the place we are in. That also speaks to the discussion on alternatives. Maybe there is a place to start small. Maybe there is a place to have a small technology office within the Government to build bespoke AI technology for a particular public service. Maybe we will see the challenges we are facing there and maybe that will bring up the contrast between the AI that is out in the market and the AI built within the Government and maybe that will lead us to somewhere we might not be able to foresee at this point.