Colombia and India expand AI training for police forces

The Colombia–India police training program is another marker of how quickly AI is permeating security institutions outside the usual U.S.–Europe–China axis. For India, exporting AI policing know-how is soft power: it positions the country as a technology partner for the Global South, not just a buyer of Western systems. For Colombia, it is a shortcut to modern surveillance capabilities without having to build all the tooling and doctrine from scratch.

For the AGI race, this isn’t a capabilities breakthrough, but it does broaden the geopolitical footprint of AI-augmented governance. Predictive policing, smart cameras and data-fusion platforms tend to create lasting dependencies on particular vendors and model providers. Once locked in, those platforms are natural candidates to be upgraded with more capable models—first better vision systems, then multimodal reasoning agents that can correlate text, video and sensor data. The choices being made now about transparency, auditing and recourse will shape whether such systems become brittle black boxes or accountable tools.