Does India Need Foresight? | Urvashi Aneja on Quest for Better Futures

If the future belongs to all of us, why do only a few get to shape it?

Founder and Executive Director, Urvashi Aneja recently joined Aakash Sethi, CEO, Quest Alliance and hosts of the podcast, Quest for Better Futures to explore how foresight can help communities — not just policymakers — reclaim agency over the future.

They begin by reflecting on the popular or dominant idea that AI will help leapfrog development. Urvashi challenges this idea, saying:

"...the question of how that leapfrogging is going to happen or how is it that AI is actually going to advance equity or inclusion, those pieces, I feel, have not been thought out well enough. There is an assumption in that vision that just providing people access to technology or providing people access to AI will somehow be enough, and the rest will just play itself out."

Watch the episode below or wherever you get your podcasts.