In line with the theme of India’s digital push and the subjects that New Delhi’s top leadership have been talking about throughout the course of the country’s G20 presidency, member nations reached a consensus on deploying digital public infrastructure for financial inclusion, creating a global framework for regulating crypto-assets and endorsing responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI). The New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration stated the G20 countries recognised that safe and trusted deployment of digital public infrastructure (DPI) can “enable service delivery and innovation”. They added that even while accounting for the potential downfalls of AI, they will “pursue a pro-innovation”...