Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform millions of lives by advancing key sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, and education, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday.
Addressing the Artificial Intelligence Summit in Paris, PM Modi highlighted that AI can accelerate progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), making the journey “easier and faster.”
He urged the global community to pool resources and talent to harness AI’s full potential for the greater good.
“We must build quality data sets free from biases. We must democratize technology and create people-centric applications. We must address concerns related to cyber security, disinformation and deepfakes. We must also ensure that technology is rooted in local ecosystems for it to be effective and useful. Loss of jobs is AI’s most feared disruption, but history has shown that work does not disappear due to technology, its nature changes and new types of jobs are created. We need to invest in skilling and re-skilling our people for an AI-driven future,” PM Modi said.
Expressing gratitude to French President Emmanuel Macron for hosting the AI Action Summit and inviting him to co-chair the summit. He said that AI is developing at an “unprecedented scale and speed” and being adapted and developed even faster.
PM Modi said, “I am grateful to my friend President Macron for hosting this summit and for inviting me to co-chair it. AI is already reshaping our polity, our economy, our security and even our society. AI is writing the code for humanity in this century. But, it is very different from other technology milestones in human history. AI is developing at an unprecedented scale and speed and being adapted and deployed even faster. There is also a deep interdependence across borders.”
PM Modi said that the world must think deeply and discuss openly about innovation and governance and emphasised that governance is also about ensuring access to all, particularly in the Global South.
Stressing the need for collective global efforts to establish governance, he said, “Governance is not just about managing risks and rivalries; it is about promoting innovation and making technology accessible, particularly in the Global South, where resources such as computing power, talent, and data are limited.”
(ANI)
