In July 2026, Prime Minister Andy Burnham placed Kanishka Narayan — born in Bihar, raised in Cardiff, schooled at Eton and Oxford — at the Cabinet table as Britain's minister for artificial intelligence. The appointment is more than a personal ascent; it is a government declaring that AI has moved from the margins of policy into its very center. Narayan's journey from Muzaffarpur to Westminster carries within it the argument he now makes publicly: that the window for nations to shape this technology, rather than be shaped by it, is narrow and closing.