Maharashtra | When in Maharashtra, AI speaks in Marathi - India Today

An innovative AI policy sees the state at the helm of a race to harness the technology for local jobs

WISE MOVE: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis launches the MahaChatur AI chatbot in Mumbai, April 27

The world at large is stricken by anxiety about what the arrival of Artificial Intelligence means for the old economy, but Indian states may be devising an ingenious workaround—one that not only maximises its potential but actually widens the technology’s capacity itself. While other states have the ink still wet on their versions, Maharashtra has become the one of the first to roll a full-fledged AI policy. Its twin premises: that AI can be turned into a jobs-and-growth engine rather than just a threat to existing work, and that making the technology speak Indian languages kills two birds with one stone.