Governing Artificial Intelligence (AI): From Technological Breakthroughs to Global Regulations and Market Power is not another breathless hymn to innovation, nor a hand-wringing apocalypse manual; it is a sober dissection of who actually gains power from AI and who absorbs the risks. The book is at its best when it treats AI as political infrastructure-tracing how a handful of firms, regulators, and geopolitical blocs are hard-wiring their interests into the technical stack, from data and compute to standards and trade rules. Its focus on India and the broader Global South cuts against the usual Silicon Valley–centric narrative, exposing how'soft-law' voluntarism, regulatory arbitrage, and capacity gaps can turn AI optimism into a new dependency regime.

What makes the volume provocative is its refusal to romanticize either disruption or 'light-touch' governance: it argues that without hard constraints, transparency obligations, and contestable institutions, AI will deepen market concentration and quietly reconfigure democratic oversight. Rather than offering vague ethics checklists, it pushes for risk-based,sector-aware regulation anchored in accountability, human-in-the-loop safeguards, and enforceable rights-an agenda that will make both uncritical techno-optimists and laissez-faire regulators uncomfortable. This is an important, and at times unsettling, read for anyone who suspects that the real AI revolution is less about clever models and more about the silent rewiring of power, markets, and public authority.