Why algorithmic sovereignty should be India’s top priority

A day after a U.S. submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena inside Sri Lanka’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), I posed a straightforward question to an advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) system: “Was the sinking legal under international law?” The reply was instant: “It was not illegal.” No qualification, no reference to the deeply contested nature of military activities in an EEZ, and no mention that India and most Global South nations interpret the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) very differently from the U.S. and its allies.