The political mobilizations envisage a change in the functioning of the government and governing system in any state or nation. With time, the role of new technologies paved the way for online battlegrounds. Artificial intelligence (AI), in particular in its emerging phase of advanced applications like bots, deep fakes, and electronic flies has potentially challenged the existing dynamics of protests and movements. It tends to reinforce power to Repressive State Apparatus with the potential rise of AI-enabled surveillance. Also, the use of AI applications by protesters and citizens is liable to alter the existing order with the disposition of dialogue between the government and its citizens. The evolution of AI in India has upsurged in its full-bloom stage with intensive use of IoT, VR, Big Data fostered by technical innovation and the advanced academia-industry.
With an aim of digitalization and technical feasibility, India is in readiness for large-scale AI adoption in its governing mechanism complementing human capabilities. This shift is evident with recent initiatives and ventures of the Government of India like INDIAai, AIRAWAT, and various AI-based projects and e-governance agencies in various states. India as a developing nation attributes to be in a state of transition and with AI-infused governing mechanisms transcending to reality today, it is important to study how change in technology shapes the political discourse in India. In this light, based on secondary sources the paper discusses sociologically the changing dynamics of political movements and protests geared by AI in contemporary India.
