SynopsisA UN-backed panel's initial report highlights India's AI healthcare successes but warns of a growing 'AI divide'. While India possesses talent, emerging economies like it face hurdles in computing power, expertise, and governance to shape advanced AI. The report stresses the need for local capacity building to avoid becoming mere consumers of AI, especially with the rise of autonomous 'agentic AI' and risks to democracy.Bengaluru: India’s experience deploying AI in healthcare demonstrates the potential of AI to deliver public benefits at scale, but the country, like many emerging economies, faces challenges around computing infrastructure, talent, governance capacity and access to advanced AI systems, according to the first preliminary assessment by a United Nations-backed scientific panel on artificial intelligence.The report was launched on Wednesday at theNow Playing