India’s 50-year-old welfare programme now uses AI to decide who gets food. Across Anganwadi centres, pregnant women and new mothers must pass a facial recognition scan before receiving rations.

How a conflict halfway across the world has made an already brutal job almost impossible for food delivery workers.

In September this year, a handful of AI images showing men that appeared unmistakably Muslim, placing large rocks on railway tracks, cropped up on X and Facebook in India. Some of the posts, which ...