Rajiv Malhotra was trained initially as a Physicist, and then as a Computer Scientist specializing in AI in the 1970s. After a successful corporate career in the US, he became an entrepreneur and founded and ran several IT companies in 20 countries. Since the early 1990s, as the founder of his non-profit Infinity Foundation (Princeton, USA), he has been researching civilizations and their engagement with technology from a historical, social sciences and mind sciences perspective.
He has authored several best-selling books. Infinity Foundation has also published a 14-volume series on the History of Indian Science & Technology.
His latest book on AI is titled, “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds,” in which India is the case study to analyze the impact of AI in a variety of domains.