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for your inspiring reflections and also for highlighting the transformative role of artificial intelligence, as well as the disruptive role of artificial intelligence, drawing our attention to it and shaping our future. Ladies and gentlemen, I would now like to introduce the speakers for a ministerial conversation. The speakers in this fireside conversation is Her Excellency Sina Lawson, Minister of Digital Transformation, Togo. His Excellency Nizar Patria, Vice Minister of Communications, Indonesia. His Excellency Rafat Hindi, Minister of Communications, Egypt. Minister Lawson has made Togo one of Africa’s most watched digital transformation stories, building mobile first government services that reach citizens who were previously entirely excluded from the formal economy. Her work is a reminder that AI’s greatest opportunities may lie in the global south.

Her work is a reminder that AI’s greatest opportunities may lie in the global south. minister patria representing the world’s fourth most populous nation and one of southeast asia’s fastest growing digital economies his excellency is navigating the complex challenge of building ai policy for a country of 270 million people spread across 17 000 islands egypt is positioning itself as an ai hub for the arab world and africa and minister hindi is leading that change with a young population and growing digital infrastructure egypt’s ambitions are both compelling and instructive for developing nations navigating the ai transition ladies and gentlemen i would like to invite our speakers please with a big round of applause i would like to request you to please welcome the minister from togo from indonesia and also from egypt i request our honorable dignitaries to kindly take your place on this stage and this conversation is being moderated by Ms.

Debjani Ghosh distinguished fellow Niti Aayog, I request Ms. Debjani Ghosh to kindly join us AI Summit is a place where everybody looks forward to such ministerial conversations and this is one such conversation that everybody is looking forward to because when we say that this is the first ever AI Summit which is being organized in a country of global south, it makes a difference and here we have very elite panel with us. Her Excellency Sina Lawson, Minister of Digital Transformation, Togo is going to join us. His Excellency Nizar Patria, Vice Minister of Communications, Indonesia. His Excellency Rafat Hindi, Minister of Communications, Egypt. We are expecting our other guests to join us very soon as Ms. Devjani Khosh, Distinguished Fellow Niti Ayog is going to moderate this conversation.

And this will also give us an insight into the countries of Global South, how they are adopting artificial intelligence, what are the challenges before them, and how the world has to come together. This global cooperation is needed so that nobody is left out of the touch of artificial intelligence, the benefits of artificial intelligence. And that’s when Honorable Prime Minister says it’s AI for all. This is what we mean, that it should reach each and every person. Of the continent, of the world, and AI should bring a change into the people of global. South too. Only then we can say that we are going, moving ahead in the right direction. So keeping that in mind, ladies and gentlemen, this ministerial conversation is going to be of utmost importance when we talk of AI Impact Summit, because this conversation will also bring to the fore those points on the basis of which we can say that AI is making an impact into the lives of people, especially the people of Global South.

And when we talk of the challenges, the difficulties which face Indians, our countrymen, that is the time when we can say that if you are able to find low -cost AI solutions to our problems, they will also be the solutions which can be adopted very, very easily by the other countries of the Global South. So here we are bringing to you this ministerial conversation. Our guests are here. And this elite panel from these countries, from Congo, Egypt, and Indonesia, will bring before us those issues that are of utmost importance to the lives of people, especially the people those aspects on which they’ve already been. working, the challenges which they think they need cooperation from other countries as well, if they want to counter these challenges.

Because when you talk of Global South, ladies and gentlemen, unless Global South develops, unless Global South adopts artificial intelligence, it cannot bring a change in the world. And that is what this summit aims at, that we must impact the lives of common men. Nobody should be left behind. And when we say this, we say, which means it’s AI for all. Everybody should be benefited. So, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our elite panelists here. We have Her Excellency, Sina Lawson, Minister of Digital Transformation, Togo. Please welcome her. His Excellency, Nisar Patria, Vice Minister of Communications, Communications Indonesia, and His Excellency, Raphat Hindi, Minister of Communications, Egypt. It’s over to you, Ms. Devjani Khosh. Thank you.

Thank you very much. much and good afternoon, everyone. And thank you to all of those who are here. So we are all finally here. And as you can see, this is truly a very power -packed panel. So since this is about the Impact Summit, the AI Impact Summit, and since we are gathered from all over the world to talk about the creation of Impact by AI, I want to first start with you, Mr. Petra. You know, when you think about the journey that we’ve had till now, the global community has had till now with AI, a lot of the focus has been on building the infrastructure. So how do you think we have really done on putting that infrastructure to work to create impact?

If you had to rate it on a scale of one to ten, what would you give the world? What score would you give the world? Thank

you, Ms. Jenny. This is really a challenging question, actually. if I had to give a number I would give 6 out of 10 yeah why 6? because well if we talk about the emerging technologies like artificial intelligence is it is the words like a buzz like a mantra right now everyone talking about AI and AI right now is here is with us and many people they don’t scrutinize anymore about the useful of AI they just use but the problem is the level of adoption of this technology, this emerging technology, especially for the global short countries like Indonesia and maybe some of African countries, Asian countries. We still have a digital gap. Yes. Especially for Indonesia, we are an archipelago country.

We are archipelagic. So we have 17 ,000 islands. We have five big islands in Indonesia. And each island has a very unique characteristic, very unique people, culture, and so on. And the telecommunication infrastructure is very, very important for our country. That unites our country with this telecommunication infrastructure. We try to improve. We try to cover all of the archipelago by our telecommunication network. And now the internet penetration into the population is already about 80%. Our population right now is 250 million people. And now what we do with these infrastructures, digital infrastructure or telecommunication infrastructure, we want meaningful connectivity. Yeah, that’s it. Meaningful connectivity. That means how we use this connectivity with the emerging technologies like artificial intelligence on top of these infrastructures to give benefit to the people.

So government try to be the accelerator to build this meaningful connectivity

Now, that’s very well said. So six out of 10. And the main gap or the main reason is we still have miles to go before everyone has access. And access has to be meaningful. Right? I think that’s very well said. Ms. Lawson, would you agree with that? Or would you have a different take on that?

Hello, everyone. Good afternoon. Yes, I do agree. Absolutely. I think that when we talk about AI, for us, at least Africans, it’s not about the technology. It’s about what we can do with it. And so a few comments. Number one is that in terms of AI talent, the African continent represents less than 1 % worldwide. In terms of infrastructure, we also have a lot of AI talent. We also have challenges. You know, a lot of countries don’t have connected schools or hospitals. So we’re still building our connectivity. and I would say that but if you look at few examples few achievements that we had using AI in terms of impact we can see that even today it’s equal to 9 out of 10 so every time we implement it in our way solving our problems then the number comes closer to 10 than anything I would also say that the African Union position was to use artificial intelligence in real life use cases so the impact for us and the sectors, the priority sectors are government infrastructure and the way we function it’s health, education, agriculture so I think that if we succeed to implement AI in those sectors then our continent will change forever

I really like that, the fact that you brought out three very important mission -critical sectors, rather than saying we need to go and do everything. But I think that priority is so important. And by the way, part of the seven working groups that was there under the AI Summit, one of the working groups, which I had the privilege of co -chairing, along with Indonesia and Netherlands, was economic impact and social development. And one of the things we decided that’s needed right now to accelerate impact is the creation of AI Commons that brings together best practices, know -how. So that was one of the key outcomes of part of the working groups that we launched. Mr.

Hendy, if I may come to you. When we talk about impact, one thing we realize is it means so many different things to so many different people. Can you give us an example of something? Something that you believe is truly… a North Star with respect to how impact has been created. A great example of how impact has been created.

Yes, thank you. In Egypt, the most meaningful impact AI has been in expanding the access to the essential public services, such as healthcare and education, in a larger scale and at nation -wide. We are using AI tools for early detection for breast cancer and some diabetes -related conditions. And we are now launching a new AI powerful tool for education support to be used in high school with high school students and teachers across the country. For the first time, advanced medical screening and learning support become available for underserved community. We usually have able to do it in big city and in elite institution, but now we are able to do it with underserved community. Three things made this possible in Egypt.

A government -first approach that puts public interest first and sovereignty AI capability that reflects our language and our local needs. Also, the strong partnership between across the government and national AI ecosystem and the global partners. Thank you.

Mr. Patria, any good example that you would like to share of impact creation in Indonesia or any other country that you think has done a really good job of it?

Well, I will share one example from Indonesia, how this artificial intelligence can help. Because we are a very diverse nation and also archipelago country, so sometimes we in the public services, for instance, healthcare, we need effective and efficient technology adoptions to help these healthcare sectors. So now we try to to encourage our young generation that build a startup. And we try to facilitate them in what he calls is an AI innovation hub. And one of the product is try to help doctors in the remote area to diagnostic the tuberculosis. The tuberculosis or TBC is coming on the stage. And it becomes very difficult for the doctors in the remote area to detect because they have a very limited access on the modern equipment or sophisticated technology to detect this tuberculosis diseases.

But with the artificial intelligence, so this startup tried to gather all of the big data from the health center in the remote areas and then make a simple program and give it to the doctors. And combined with the x -ray machine, it can help doctors to identify whether this is TBC or this is just ordinary lung problems. So I see these initiatives in certain sectors already copied to other sectors for the education, for the agriculture. Many startups try to adopt this AI technology right now. And I can see and we can feel that the enthusiasm is really, really high. But the problem we need as a government, as a policymaker, we need to give the safeguard and to accelerate.

in building this healthy and fair ecosystem to boost the innovation on artificial intelligence.

Fantastic. Ms. Lawson, any favorite impact story that you want to share?

Yes, I have a great impact story. During the pandemic, we were able to use AI to prioritize the beneficiaries for our financial aid program. So at the height of the pandemic, we built a program to distribute cash using mobile phones, right? So the question then was, how do you prioritize beneficiaries? We started in 2020. And in 2020, we didn’t know if the pandemic was going to last for a long time. So we had one certainty, which was that we needed to be super efficient in programming. Prioritizing who needed the money the most. And so we used two AI algorithms. One… applied to satellite imagery. We drew the poverty map of Togo. And then another based on machine learning with telecom metadata, we were able to isolate the phone numbers of people who were, yeah.

So that was really our first major experience using AI. And then after the pandemic, the question for us was, we want this to be sustainable. Right? How do you, because it was during the pandemic, we had a partnership with Berkeley. So we were working, really figuring out things as they were coming. But afterwards, we wanted to build capabilities in -house. So we now have within the Ministry of Public Sector Efficiency, a team of 25 people, data scientists, and we support other branches of government. Because when we talk, you know, here we talk about AI and everybody really, knows what AI is and the type of applications that, you know, things we can do with AI. But a lot of people, they don’t know what AI is.

don’t know. So it’s very important to have a team of people who work, say, with the Ministry of Agriculture or the Ministry of Environment and producing images and really data that can help these ministries improve policies. So I think this is a great learning experience for us. It’s applying AI to improve policies.

It’s such a brilliant example because one, it impacts the grassroots, right? The people who need it the most. And second, it’s, you know, government has a lot of, I mean, especially in the Global South, a lot of government usages, augmentation of services. I think what you’re doing is really enabling better development of policies. And that’s that. I would, in fact, request you to please share this case study so we can put it in the AI Commons that we have built. So I would really request you to do that. The next question is also to you, Ms. Lawson, which is… As government, what do you think is the biggest roadblock to scaling impact creation where it can reach population?

Is it data? Is it infrastructure? Is it regulation? Or is it even geopolitical dynamics?

So I think it’s a combination of various things. We’re tackling all of these things. But first, it’s infrastructure, because that’s the starting point. But you also have something, when I was referring to the data lab, a lot of people don’t know this universe exists, right? That you can apply, you know, you can use AI to gather information as to when you want to design a new infrastructure, like an itinerary. For example, when we build our fiber optics network, we use satellite imagery and so on. But a lot of people just don’t know it exists. Right. So they can’t ask. They don’t know which question to ask. Right. And so. So even if we’re there, so we do a lot of outreach within government going and saying, look, this is what we were able to do using AI and so on.

So I think that what I would call institutional capacity is a roadblock because people just don’t know. So it’s a lot of training required. The other thing is, and I think it’s also one thing that we’ve been working on is right now AI is in French or English, right? It’s not in, it’s not, we have in Togo, we have 42 languages and dialects. And for AI to, if we want massive AI adoption, we need to be able to provide these models in local languages. So that’s one very important aspect of what we’ve been up to. 42 languages. Yeah. Wow. And dialects, you know, I’m sure that, yeah. Yeah. So that’s the challenge. But that’s also the opportunity because when you think about creating.

impact for AI. Think of education. Imagine, and that’s what I imagine, imagine a world where every school children has an AI tutor being able to explain to them, you know, math and science in local languages, in their own dialects. That’s for me, the power of AI, really.

So institutional capacity is one of the biggest roadblocks that you see. Mr. Pedra, is there anything you want to add to that in terms of the biggest roadblocks to mass scale impact creation?

Yeah, I agree with the colleagues from Togo. I think it’s the problem today for the global sub -countries like Indonesia, and I think some of African countries and other ASEAN countries. is now we are facing the geopolitical condition that you mentioned is really challenging times today because we are facing asymmetric conditions amongst global sorts and global norms. And that’s one problem because the platformization, the dominance of the platform is so important to define or to determine the progress of the fair ecosystem in one country. That’s the first thing. And the second one, I think the infrastructure is one of the critical things that we need to pay attention. We need to improve. We need to heighten the standard of services on this infrastructure.

And then regulations. I think regulation is also very important. in this sense because… Do we over -regulate? No, no, no. We don’t intend to heavily regulate these AI sectors because we try to balance protections and also innovations. That’s most important, I think. If you heavily regulate, so no innovations at all. I cannot agree more. Yeah, so we try to balance. And the most important, the last thing that is most important, I think, we need to improve our research and development and then attract the investment to support these innovations and to nurture our digital talent. That’s the most important that we have to do in the short term.

Extremely well said. And I think between the two of you really captured it. While infrastructure is always important and you always want to, you want more compute, you want to build it out. But if you don’t have institutional capacity, then investment in that infrastructure will not give you the returns. And regulation needs to help innovation, needs to help scale. And R &D is absolutely critical. So I think these are brilliant points. I know our time is up. So my last question, and I would request all three of you to answer. If we look at the next five years, the future, how should AI success be measured? Today, we are primarily looking at how many models we are building, how big are the models.

How should we be looking at AI success? What’s the North Star? I’ll start with you, Mr. Hendy.

If I have to choose now, it would be this. The business. The percentage of people that have access. Wonderful. To high. Quality AI enabled services. Wonderful. Not the number of models, not the compute. The people’s benefits are the most important. They have to benefit from healthcare, from education, from agriculture and government. And the KPI matters for three reasons, actually. First, it shifts the focus from technology to people. And AI is advancing very fast. But access to it is not that fast. We need to make sure this happens. And this is what I can see for 2030, maybe for AI. Second, it exposes the global gaps, not hiding them. So gaps in the compute, gaps in infrastructure, in local language models.

So this is very important. The third one is it’s framing AI as a development tool. Not a dominant tool. where compute power is shared and public service is prioritized. I think this is what I look forward to.

So success is not the size of models or the size of your compute infrastructure, but how many lives we are able to change. And are we able to do that in a way that no one is left behind, right? It’s inclusive. Brilliant. Anything you all want to add? Any different thoughts, Mr. Petra and then Ms. Lawson?

Yeah, just a very short on this. I just want to add three more. But the first one I think is similar like colleagues from Egypt. In the next five years, AI should be accessible. That’s the first one. And the second one, for the global south countries, AI must solve the problem. That’s the most important. And the third one, I think AI, need to be trusted. trusted yeah need to be trusted so it need to comply with the transparency and accountability standard so no more AI deep fake can cheat people yeah so because people have good awareness on this AI product especially generative AI like AI deep fake or synthetic reality that produced by this AI machines so I think that three points we can give mark whether this AI workable in the society or it’s become a disaster to the

I cannot agree more with you on all three but I think the one that is most important is trust because if it’s not trustworthy it’ll never be adopted it’ll never be used so I think that is brilliant brilliant point Ms. Lawson the last words to you

I would echo what has been said and for me success would be I think If five years from now, every Togolese is one phone call away to access any public services, right? And so that’s how I’m going. Personally, I’m going to measure success with regards to AI in Togo because then it talks to the people, right? Because so far we’ve been talking about digital transformation, which was really going from paper to screen. But what is going to be a real game changer is if I can talk to the machine and the machine can reply and so on. So that’s one thing. And obviously, the comment about trust is a very important one. We are a very young continent.

Half of the African population is less than 18 years old and 75 % is less than 35. And so it’s very important for us to have a trusted AI. AI infrastructure and so on. And so there’s a lot of work that we need to do. We didn’t mention to have also standards and platform for data exchange, which is going to be extremely crucial in our relationship with the global north. So these are really important issues that we need to tackle if we want to be successful five years from now.

I think that’s very, very well put. And, you know, this was, ladies and gentlemen, such a powerful discussion because what’s coming out of it is how despite all the differences between countries, I think governments today are thinking very similarly about artificial intelligence. Its success, again, is not about the size of your infrastructure, but about how many lives changed. And in order to scale transformation of lives, you need to ensure your technology. It’s trustworthy. You need to ensure it’s inclusive by design. You need to invest in capacity development, innovation. And it’s fantastic to see everyone thinking along the same lines because it really. brings to forward the importance of collective action and collaboration and I think that’s what has come out of this summit.

So with that, thank you to all three of you and please give them a huge round of applause. Thank you.

Friends, the leader who made this, who gave this vision to the world, I now invite the Honorable Prime Minister for your inaugural address. Give a big round of applause for the Honorable Prime Minister.

Excellencies, Honorable Ministers, Industry Leaders, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Researchers, Delegates, Delegates, Delegates, Delegates, Delegates, Delegates, Delegates, Delegates, Delegates, Delegates, Delegates, Delegates, Delegates, Delegates, Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. This is the center of the tech talent pool. It is the biggest example of a tech -enabled ecosystem. India is also making new technology and is also adopting it at an unprecedented speed. I welcome all of you, heads of governments, global AI ecosystem leaders, and innovators to this summit. I welcome all of you, heads of governments, global AI ecosystem leaders, and innovators to this summit. I welcome all of you, heads of governments, global AI ecosystem leaders, and innovators to this summit. I welcome all of you, heads of governments, global AI ecosystem leaders, and innovators to this summit.

I welcome all of you, heads of governments, global AI ecosystem leaders, and innovators to this summit. India is the source of pride for the entire Global South. In this summit, AI world’s who’s who is present here. The representation of more than 100 countries, from every corner of the world, the great people have come here. They are taking its success to new heights. In this, the presence of the young generation, we have seen, that is a new phenomenon. It creates a new belief. Generally, about new technology, in some people, in the beginning, there was a suspicion. But the speed with which the young generation of the world is accepting AI, is taking ownership of it, is using AI, is incredible.

It is incredible. Here, the exhibition of AI summit is also very exciting. Especially, the young talent has come in a large number. Agriculture, security, the help of the people of Divya, the help of the multilingual population, the help of the people of the region, the help of the people of the region, the help of the people of the region, the help of the people of the region, the help of the people of the region, the help of the people of the region, the help of the people of the region, the help of the people of the region, made in India ki taakat aur Bharat Satyam manav itihas mein har kuch satabhiyon ke baat ek turning point aata hai.

Aur wo turning point sabyata ki disha reset karta hai. Aur wahi se vikas ki raptar badalti hai. Sochane, samajane aur kaam karne ke paradigm badalti hai. Aur dilchasp baat ye hai jab hum transformation ke usdaur mein hotay hai tab uske vastrik impact ka andaja bhi nahi hota. Jab pattharon se pehli baat sa spark nikla kisi ne nahi socha tha ki vahee chingari civilizational ki foundation banegi jab boli ko pehli baar leepy me badla gaya kisi ne nahi jana tha ki return knowledge future system ki backbone banegi jab pehli baar signals ko wireless transmit kia gaya kisi ne kalpana nahi ki thi ki ek din puri duniya real time me connect ho gi saathio artificial intelligence manav itihas ka aisa hi transformation hai aaj jo ham dekh rahe hai jo predict kar rahe hai hai hai AI is only the initial indication of its impact.

AI is making machines intelligent. But it is also increasing human resources many times. The difference is only one. This time, the speed is also incredible. And the scale is also incredible. Earlier, it took decades to see the impact of technology. Today, the journey from machine learning to learning machine is fast, deep and also fast. That is why, we have to keep our vision big. and responsibility is also very important. With the current generation, we have to worry about the fact that in the hands of the coming generations, we will not be able to give the form of AI. That is why today the real question is not what artificial intelligence can do in the future.

The question is what we do with artificial intelligence in the present. What do we do with artificial intelligence? What do we do with artificial intelligence? Such questions have come before humanity. The most powerful example is nuclear power. We have seen its destruction. and positive contribution is also seen. AI is also a transformative power. If it is directionless, then disruption. If it gets the right direction, then solution. How to make AI machine -centric and human -centric? How to make AI machine -centric and human -centric? How to make AI machine -centric and human -centric? This is the main purpose of this Global AI Impact Summit. This is the main purpose of this Global AI Impact Summit. This is the main purpose of this Global AI Impact Summit.

This is the main purpose of this Global AI Impact Summit. This is the main purpose of this Global AI Impact Summit. This is the main purpose of this Global AI Impact Summit. This is the main purpose of this Global AI Impact Summit. This is the main purpose of this Global AI Impact Summit. This is the main purpose of this Global AI Impact Summit. sarvajan sukhaay welfare for all happiness of all yahi hamara benchmark hai AI ke liye insan sirp data point na ban jaye insan sirp raw material tak simit na rai jaye isliye AI ko democratize karna hoga isse inclusion aur empowerment ka madhyam banana hoga aur vishes rupse global south saathiyo haan hume AI ko open sky bhi dena open sky bhi dena and command is also in our hands like GPS GPS gives us a way but in which direction we have to go its final call is ours today we will take AI in which direction our future will be decided today in New Delhi AI Impact Summit I for AI M A N A V M A N A V Manav Manav Vision I present to you that we are human human human And Manav Vision says, M, moral and ethical systems, i .e.

AI, based on ethical guidance. A, accountable governance, i .e. transparent rules, robust oversight. And national sovereignty, i .e. data. A, accessible and inclusive. B, valid and legitimate, i .e. AI. lawful or verifiable ho. Bharat ka ye manav vision 21 sadhi ki AI aadharit duniya mein manavta ke kalyan ki aham kadhi banega. Saathiyon dasak ko pehle jab internet ki shuruwaad hoi toh koi soj bhi nahi pata tha ki iss se kitni jobs banegi. Yehi baat AI mein hai. Aaj kalpana karna muskil hai ki aane wale samay iss film mein kis tarah ki jobs pada hogi. AI ka future of work and predefined nahi hai. This will depend on our decisions and our course of action. I understand that for us, the future of work is a new opportunity.

This is the time to work together with humans and intelligent systems. We are entering an era where humans and intelligent systems co -create, co -work and co -evolve. AI will make our work smarter, more efficient and impactful. I am sure that our future will be bright. We will design better, build faster and make better decisions. higher value, creative, and meaningful roles will also be achieved. This is a great opportunity for innovation, entrepreneurship, and new industries. Therefore, we have to make skilling, reskilling, and lifelong learning a mass movement. Friends, the future of work will be inclusive, trusted, and human -centric. If we move forward together, artificial intelligence will take the power of humanity to new heights.

Friends, it is said that the sun rises. The sunlight is the best disinfectant. A .I. is the biggest security. Some countries and companies believe that A .I. is a strategic asset. That is why it should be developed in a confidential way. But the thinking of India is different. We believe that a technique like A .I. will be useful for the world when it will be shared. When the codes will be opened and shared, then our millions of young minds will be able to make them better and safer. That is why A .I. is a strategic asset. We take the decision that AI will be developed as a global common good. Friends, today’s very big need is to create global standards.

We are creating standards for deep facts and fabricated content in open societies. In the physical world, we look at the nutrition label on food so that we know what we are eating. In the same way, we look at the digital world. In the same way, we should have an authenticity label on content. So that people know. that what is real and what is made from AI. As AI is making more text, images and videos, in the same way, watermarking and clear source standards are increasing in the industry. That is why it is important that this trust is built in technology from the beginning. Friends, we need to be more aware of children’s safety. We need to be more aware of children’s safety.

Just like the school syllabus is curated, the AI space is also curated. Child safety is also a part of it. and family guided. Friends, there are two types of people in the world today. One, those who see fear in AI. They always talk like this. Such people who see fear in AI. And the other ones are those who see luck in AI. And friends, I say with responsibility, with pride, we are not afraid. India sees luck in AI. India sees a future in AI. We have talent and we have There is energy capacity and policy clarity. And I am happy to tell you that in this summit, three Indian companies have launched their AI models and apps.

These models show the talent of our youth. And the solutions that India is providing, are also a reflection of its depth and diversity. Friends, from India’s semiconductor and chip making to quantum computing, India is building a resilient ecosystem. Secure data center. strong IT background, dynamic startup ecosystem, make India a natural hub for affordable, scalable, and secure AI solutions. India also has diversity, democracy, and democracy. The AI model that succeeds in India can be deployed globally. That is why I invite all of you to Design and Develop in India. Thank you. Deliver to the world. Deliver to humanity. Thank you.

Honourable Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modi ji, Excellencies, Heads of State, Policy Makers and Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen. It is an extraordinary privilege to be here this morning and participate in this AI Summit. India is a nation of AI optimists. Our enthusiasm is not surprising. Indians have witnessed the hugely ambitious development of AI. They are committed to developing the most ambitious digital infrastructure programs and what they can achieve. The largest digital identity system in the world. covering 1 .4 billion people. A digital payment interface that accounts for half of the entire world’s transactions. Over the past few years, under our Honorable Prime Minister’s vision, India has treated AI as a strategic national capability, aligning the full stack from chips to systems to energy and to applications.

Through Semicon India and India AI Mission, and most importantly, the recent reforms such as the Shanti Act for clean energy, we are building AI at scale with trust, resilience, and long -term competitiveness. AI. is a foundational technology that cuts across all industries. AI. AI is nothing artificial, it is real. Because it learns from data and learns faster every day. And it is… AI is nothing artificial, it is real. Because it learns from data and learns faster every day. And it is not based on artificial rules. Third, AI can scale pretty rapidly. Putting all together, to my mind, is the next big infrastructure. Our mission as a infrastructure should be to make AI work for every individual and every citizen in this country.

We should put the AI tools in the hands of the lost person, in the country, and in fact on the earth. And that’s the vision… that we should all work towards. A couple of days ago, we witnessed 1 ,500 rural women here in Bharat Mandapam who had no background to computing, no background to digital tools. In a matter of few hours, could learn AI, could build products, could build marketing materials, campaigns, all in front of a global audience, and they did it in four hours. AI will have huge impact on our public services delivery. It will have huge impact on enterprises around the world. Since I come from the background of IT industry, one word for the IT industry, it is…

In my opinion, the biggest opportunity for the tech sector and the IT industry. Because the IT industry’s real value is the context and understanding of every enterprise’s business and technology landscape and make the right technology work inside the processes and the ecosystem, the supplier, customer, and all the other connections an enterprise has. AI will expand that role much further. It is the opportunity to integrate AI and AI agents into workflows, reimagine processes, and make it work and carry out the transformation so that every enterprise can realize the moat and realize its vision. Now I want to talk a little bit about the Tata Group. At the Tata Group, we are a… We are adopting AI across the stack, from silicon to system…

to AI -ready data centers, to applications, and AI agents. And we believe such a vision and such a journey is going to be extremely exciting, and it will require us to work with world -leading partners in India and across the globe. I would like to make five points. The Tata Group is establishing India’s first large -scale AI -optimized data center, purpose -built for the next -generation AI training and inference. I’m very happy to announce that we have partnered with OpenAI to build the first 100 -megawatt capacity, which will scale to 1 gigawatt. And we made an announcement with AMD yesterday, where we will combine the world -class AI -packed architecture with the world -class AI -optimized architecture, with Tata’s strength in…

infrastructure, engineering, power, and solution capabilities to create a sustainable high -density AI capacity in India for global standards. The third, we are already building an AI data insights platform. Minister Ashwini articulated the layers of data architectures. What we are building is totally based on diverse Indian data sets on top of the foundational models. So intelligence becomes available across the diversity of Indian contexts. And the fourth, TCS and our other company, Tata Communications, together, we are building an AI operating system for industry. So, what we are doing is we are building a TCS and Tata Communications. And what we are doing is we are building a TCS and Tata Communications. And what we are doing is we are building a TCS and Tata Communications.

And what we are doing is we are building a TCS and Tata Communications. build agentic industry solutions for every industry. We are already well on that journey, and we will work with partners to be able to launch it and take it to all enterprises around the globe. And finally, again, I want to thank the vision of our Prime Minister, which made it possible for us to make a serious foray into chips and semiconductors. What we will do next is to build chips that are very domain -centric, which will be totally AI -optimized for every industry, and we will first launch or work towards getting it ready for the automotive sector. So these are the areas that…

I think it is the time for promise to take action. into practice so that we can deliver prosperity. Finally, in conclusion, I just want to say that we are standing here at a very defining moment. It is the age of abundant intelligence where the scarce resources are trust, stewardship, and human capability. So let us send out a simple standard for the AI decade. Capability with dignity, high impact for every watt of energy, and progress with agency and collaboration. Thank you all very much.

I am very pleased. I believe that our summit will play an important role in the creation of a human -centric, sensitive, global AI ecosystem. Friends, if we look at history, we know that man has changed every disruption into a new opportunity. Today, we have another such opportunity. Friends, we have to change this disruption into the biggest opportunity for mankind. buddha ki dharti hai aur bhagwan buddha ne kaha tha right action comes from right understanding isliye ye bahut awashak hai ke hum saath mil kar aisa road mein banaye jisse AI ka sahi impact dikhe aur sahi impact tabhi aata hai jab hum sahi samay par sahi niyat se sahi nirnay lete hai friends covid global pandemic ke samay duniya ne dekha hai ki jab hum ek dusre ke saath khade hote hai to asambhavi sambhav ho jata hai vaccine vikas se dekar supply chain sak vaccine data sajha karne se lekar jeevan bachane tak sahiyog ne hi samadhan diya technology kaise manavta ki sewa ka madhyam ban sakta hai ye humne bharat mein covid kaal mein dekha hai humara jo digital vaccination platform tha usne karono logon ko samay par vaccinate karane mein bahut madat ki humare UPI ne un muskil parisritiyon mein bhi ye sunisit kiya ki log asani se online transaction karte rahe UPI ne bharat mein digital divide ko door karne mein bhi bahut badi bhumi ka nibhai hai bhi te barso mein India has made a vibrant digital public infrastructure.

We are also sharing it with the world. Because for us, technology is not a power, but a means of service. It is not power, it is empowering. The direction of AI should be such that it is the welfare of all mankind. Friends, in the past, technology has created division. But now, AI technology is easy for everyone, it is in everyone’s reach. This should be our aim. That is why, Today, when we are discussing the future of AI, then we… global south ke aakanshaon aur prathviktahon ko bhi AI governance ke kaindra mein rakhna hoga excellencies yug chahe koi bhi raha ho ethics humesa hi charcha ke kaindra mein raha hai antar bas itna aaya hai ki pehle unethical behavior ka daira bahut chota hota tha lekin AI mein iska daira asimit hai unlimited hai isliye AI ke liye hume ethical behavior aur norms ka daira bhi asimit banana hoga AI companies ke saamne bahut badi jimmedari hai profit ke saath saath purpose par bhi focus ho Aise ethical commitment ki bahut aavashakta hai.

Byaktigat sar par AI hamari learning, intelligence aur emotions ko prabhavit kar rahi hai. Excellency, AI ke ethical upyog ke liye mere teen sujaav hai. First, data sovereignty ko respect karte huye AI training ke liye ek data framework bane. Jaisa AI mein kaha jata hai, garbage in, garbage out. Agar data surakshit, santulit, biswasiyan nahi hoga, to output vi barose man nahi hoga. Isle global transformation. First, data framework jaroori hai. Second, AI platform. aapne safety rules bahut clear aur transparent rakhe. Hame black box ke badle glass box approach chahiye. Jahan safety rules dekhe aur verify kiye ja sakhe. Tab accountability bhi clear hogi aur business mein ethical behavior ko bhi boost milega. Third AI research mein paper clip problem ka udharan diya jaata hai.

Agar kisi machine ko sir paper clip banane ka alak de diya jaye to wo uska ek kaam ke liye duniya ke saare resources ko daon par laga kar bhi wahi kaam karti rahegi. Isliye AI ko clear human values aur guidance ki jarurat hai. Technology powerful hai. but the direction will always be decided by the human being. Friends, in the global journey of artificial intelligence, AI, aspirational India is a big part of AI. And with this responsibility, India is taking big steps today. Through our AI mission, today there are 38 ,000 GPUs in India. And in the next six months, we are going to install 24 ,000 more GPUs. We are providing world -class computing power at a very affordable rate to our startups.

We have established a world -class computing power. We have established a world -class computing power. We have also established an AI course. Through this, more than 7 ,500… data sets and 270 AI models have been shared as national resource. Friends, AI is the direction of India. India’s thinking is clear. AI is a shared resource for the welfare of all mankind. We have to make such an AI feature which will advance innovation, strengthen inclusion, and make human values stronger. When technology and human trust work together, then AI will have the right impact on the world. Now, I am very excited to hear your thoughts. Excellency. Excellency. Now I invite the President of Brazil, His Excellency, President Lula for his remarks.

President, as a senior and experienced leader, your leadership is very important to increase cooperation in AI. I welcome you for your valuable thoughts and I invite you to address us. President, as a senior and experienced leader, your leadership is very important to increase cooperation in AI.

Mr. Chief of State Mr. Chief of Government For Brazil it is a satisfaction to participate in the artificial intelligence impact group organized by the Indian government this being the first occasion in which it takes place in the global south Here in Delhi the digital world returns to its home land It was the Indian mathematicians who gave us, more than 2 ,000 years ago the binary system that would come to structure modern computing We take the path back to debate one of the greatest dilemmas of today Our societies are in a crossroads The fourth industrial revolution is the fourth industrial revolution It advances rapidly while multilateralism retreats dangerously. It is in this context that the global governance of artificial intelligence takes on a strategic role.

All technological innovation of great impact has a dual character and confronts us with ethical and political issues. Aviation, the use of atoms, genetic engineering and space travel are examples of this phenomenon. They can multiply collective well -being or cast shadows on the destiny of humanity. The digital revolution and artificial intelligence raise this challenge to unprecedented levels. They positively impact industrial productivity, public services, medicine, security, food and energy, and the way we connect with each other. But they can also promote extremely harmful practices, such as the use of autonomous weapons, hate speech, disinformation, child pornography, feminicide, violence against women and girls, and work precariousness. False content manipulated by artificial intelligence distorts electoral processes and puts democracy at risk.

Algorithms are not just applications of mathematical codes that support the digital world. They are part of a complex power structure. Without collective action, artificial intelligence will deepen historical inequalities. Computational capacities, infrastructure and capital remain effectively concentrated in few countries and companies. The data generated by our citizens empresas e organismos públicos estão sendo apropriados por poucos conglomerados sem contrapartida equivalente em geração de valor e renda em nossos territórios. Segundo a União Internacional de Telecomunicações, 2 ,6 bilhões de pessoas estão desconectadas do universo digital. As estimativas mostram que em 2030 ainda teremos 660 milhões de pessoas sem eletricidade. Quando poucos controlam os algoritmos e as infraestruturas digitais, não estamos falando de inovação, mas de dominação.

A regulamentação das chamadas Big Techs está ligada ao imperativo de salvaguardar os direitos humanos na esfera digital, promover a integridade digital e a segurança da sociedade. A regulamentação da informação e proteger as indústrias criativas de nossos países. O modelo atual de negócios dessas empresas depende da exploração de dados pessoais, da renúncia do direito à privacidade e da monetização de conteúdos chamativos que amplificam radicalização política. O regime de governança dessas tecnologias definirá quem participa, quem é explorado e quem ficará à margem desse processo. Colocar o ser humano no centro das nossas decisões é tarefa urgente. O Congresso Brasileiro discute uma política de atração de investimentos em centros de dados e um marco regulatório de inteligência artificial.

O Brasil lançou em 2025 o Plano Brasileiro de Inteligência Artificial. Esse plano expressa nosso compromisso com a melhoria da qualidade de vida das pessoas através de serviços públicos mais ágeis e maiores de qualidade. Estímulo à geração de emprego e renda. This was the paradigm of the Declaration on Artificial Intelligence, which we approved at the BRICS conference in Rio de Janeiro last year. This is the posture that Brazil adopts in the Diário with other partners and forums. We participated in the initiative of China on the creation of an international organization for cooperation in artificial intelligence, with a focus on developing countries. We dialogue with the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence, which was born in the G7.

But none of these forums replaces the universality of the United Nations for an international governance of artificial intelligence that is multilateral, inclusive and oriented to development. The Global Digital Pact, which we approved in New York in September 2024, established a crucial mechanism. The International Scientific Panel. independente sobre inteligência artificial é o primeiro órgão científico global sobre o tema e reúne especialistas, fatos e evidências em suas manifestações. O Brasil defende uma governança que reconheça a diversidade de trajetórias nacionais e garanta que a inteligência artificial fortaleça a democracia, a coesão social e a soberania dos países. Senhoras e senhores, a Índia, ao longo de sua história, legou à humanidade contribuições secundas e extraordinárias em diversos campos do conhecimento, nas artes, na ciência e na filosofia.

Uma herança que traz à luz grandes dilemas éticos sobre a justiça, a diversidade, a inclusão e a resiliência. Este patrimônio é um poderoso referencial e é um poderoso referencial na busca pros esporta dos desafios que a inteligência artificial impõe

Thank you, Prime Minister Modi. Thank you, Prime Minister Modi. The Excellency. The Excellency’s colleagues, ladies and gentlemen. We live in an era in which technology is evolving more quickly than societal rules and institutions can keep up. with it. Estonia’s vision is to become one of the world’s leading AI -powered states in the coming decade. To support this ambition, the government has launched the AST .AI program, a national initiative to systematically apply AI across the economy and the public sector. Our goal is clear, to boost productivity, increase the value of work, and secure Estonia’s long -term competitiveness despite demographic constraints. Importantly, this is not a project for technologists, but a societal and economic strategy of transformation.

In the agentic era, AI must serve people, not our way around. This means transparent technology, data use, people’s control over their data, and the ability to question AI -driven decisions. At the same time, Estonia is investing in the next generation through the AI Leap initiative, a public -private partnership that provides students and teachers nationwide with access to advanced AI tools, training and learning frameworks. By equipping citizens with AI literacy, critical thinking and creativity, we will strengthen both our innovation ecosystem and our open society. For Estonia, it is not a question of whether to use AI. The question is how to do so in a way that bolsters people’s freedoms, the level of trust and legal certainty.

In the AI era, digital… Digital serenity has become part of 21st century’s national security. That means not just physical infrastructure… but computing power, secure data management, and autonomous solutions. Small countries are unable to compete with large ones in terms of capital and computing power. We can, however, compete on trust, transparency, and values -based governance. Estonia’s goal is to become a global testing ground for responsible AI, one in which technology and the legal space develop in tandem and where innovation is tested in actual society while protecting people’s interests. Ladies and gentlemen, at the end of last year, the United Nations General Assembly established a global dialogue on AI governance as an inclusive platform within the UN for states and stakeholders to address the pressing challenges.

AI challenging facing humanity. Estonia is honoured to co -facilitate this process together with El Salvador and we are committed to carrying out this responsibility with great dedication The success of the AI era will not be measured in growth in productivity or the number of automated processes but more importantly by whether people feel safe, included and empowered To continue these conversations, Estonia will be hosting the Talin Digital Summit on 5th and 6th of November focusing on resilience of AI -driven societies Thank you very much for your attention

Thank you Thank you Thank you I have touched upon many important aspects of AI. Thank you very much for this. On 24th February, it is your National Day. I congratulate you and wish you a very happy birthday from all the Indians. Now I invite the President of Serbia, His Excellency, to attend his funeral.

Honourable Prime Minister, dear friend Narendra Modi, Your Excellencies, I’ll do my best to fit myself into proposed three minutes. I’ve seen recently on Indian TV a big question, an important question for all of us, whether AI is becoming a saviour or a killer. and I’m certain that nobody knows a proper response. But the real issue is that we’ll all use artificial intelligence, we’ll embrace it, and we’ll have to do everything in order to secure that AI serves for our needs, for humanity’s needs, for people’s needs, not vice versa. Speaking about hope and concern, as a prudent and cautious person, I would like to emphasize the following. Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein warned that technology can surface our ability to use it wisely.

Today we face the same question. Does our political capacity keep pace with the speed of technological development? Because artificial intelligence is becoming infrastructure, and infrastructure is always a political issue. Countries that control key digital infrastructure and technological platforms have the ability to set standards. Countries that depend on other systems adapt to rules that did not define themselves. That is why today’s debate on AI is not about the speed of AI models or the volume of data. It is about who will have the capacity to make decisions. We are witnessing an unprecedented concentration of technological power. However, several centers around the world are developing the most advanced models, possess the largest computing capacities and shape standards that are becoming global.

This is a reality we cannot ignore. But the key question is this. Will this concentration of power become a permanent state in which a small number of shareholders set the rules for everyone else? If digital infrastructure remains closed within a narrow circle, the rest of the world will not only fall behind in development. Its sovereignty will begin. It will be conditioned by decisions made by others. Sovereignty in the 21st century is no longer solely a territorial category. It implies a state’s ability to manage the data of its citizens, to understand and regulate algorithmic systems that influence the economy, security and public policy, to develop its own experts and research capacities, and to make regulatory decisions without external pressure.

Without this, political independence becomes merely formal. Serbia understands this. We are not a technological superpower, but we are not passive observers either. In recent years, we have strongly invested in research centers, education in artificial intelligence and regulatory frameworks that follow technological developments. For us, AI is not a symbol of modernity. It is a matter of long -term stability. In a world where algorithms are used to manage financial flows, energy networks, logistic systems and security analysis, a country that lacks its own knowledge and capacities becomes destabilized. A country that is dependent on external assessments and decisions. Such dependence is unsustainable. It’s around three minutes and I would like to add just one sentence. Dear Prime Minister, I believe that all of us from all over the world should find a common denominator in tackling all the concerns about this big issue.

Otherwise, I would rather be a part of that second camp that you were speaking about today morning. Thank you once again for your great hospitality and wish you good work. Thanks a lot.

Prime Minister, for your positive thoughts, I am very grateful. On 15th February, Serbia’s statehood day was celebrated. On this occasion, I congratulate you and wish you well. Now I invite the President of Slovakia, His Excellency, Pellegrini, to speak.

And there is another point. It is strategic. AI capability and resilience increasingly depend on where trusted compute is physically located and how it is governed. Sensitive data must stay under clear legal protection. That is why jurisdiction matters. And we are moving from talk to implementation. Work on AI factory projects in Slovakia, built on the newest generation of GPU chips, is progressing very fast. And we want to make it real very soon in this year. This places Slovakia among early movers in our region in building sovereign AI infrastructure. Instead of exporting electricity as a raw commodity, we want to turn our energy niche into a digital export. With higher value. And we want to build a local AI ecosystem around it.

And now let me move on to my third point. education and real use, not just words. In AI, the world does not need more words. The world does not need more words. It needs results. Slovakia is building capacity to use AI in key sectors. We do it as a part of our digital transformation work and our AI vision work. In November 2025, Slovakia held the Bratislava AI Forum together with the OECD. It focused on AI and education. And it confirmed my belief, if we want safe and useful AI, education must lead the way. That is why I am here today also with our Minister of Education, because we take this topic very, very seriously. We see clear areas with a real public value.

Healthcare. AI can support better decision and earlier detection. Education. AI can support teachers and skills for the future. Public services, AI can help services work faster and better. And we are building also compute at home. In November 2025, Slovakia launched the supercomputer with the name Perun as part of our national high -performance computing capacity. This computer gives Slovakia serious compute at home. It is built for AI simulations and big data. It can support projects such as training AI models, models, image recognition and large language models. Ladies and gentlemen, AI can speed up processes, but responsibility must always remain with the human being. The future of AI will not be decided only by faster models. It will be decided by the character of our choices.

Slovakia’s offer is very simple. Low carbon energy, growing compute infrastructure and the focus on trust and responsibility. Let us work together, governments, businesses and researchers and human -centered AI that people can trust. And let us measure success not in teraflops, but in lives improved. Thank you very much. Thank you.

The country that is living in this situation can achieve many other things beyond the economic situation, including the growth of the economy. Therefore, it is important to be able to meet the needs of all the people we expect, as well as to meet the needs of the general public. The economic situation in Sri Lanka is very important. The country that is living in this situation can achieve many other things beyond the economic situation, as well as to meet the needs of all the people we expect, as well as to meet the needs of the general public. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country.

We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country.

We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. We have to be very careful about the economic and social issues that affect our country. This is a cultural challenge. Humanity should continue this struggle for cultural development and even greater development. This struggle is a challenge for the world. Even if the language and memory are limited, our unparalleled cultural diversity is at stake.

The language and culture of Sri Lanka and other countries are a source of pride and belief. We need to protect the environment and the environment in order to achieve this cultural development. We need to stop the use of our national language, cultural knowledge, and digitalization. Thank you. We need to protect the environment and the environment in order to achieve this cultural development. We need to stop the use of our national language, cultural knowledge, and digitalization. We have established a system to protect the vulnerable families who are affected by this. Our vision, good art, and the reality are not the same. We have seen that in the past. The next step is to provide economic and cultural assistance.

For that, we are planning to provide art and culture assistance to Sri Lanka. We are planning to provide art and culture assistance to Sri Lanka. We are planning to provide art and culture assistance to Sri Lanka. We are planning to provide art and culture assistance to Sri Lanka. We are planning to provide art and culture assistance to Sri Lanka. We are planning to provide art and culture assistance to Sri Lanka. We are planning to provide art and culture assistance to Sri Lanka. We are planning to provide art and culture assistance to Sri Lanka. We are planning to provide art and culture assistance to Sri Lanka. We are planning to provide art and culture assistance to Sri Lanka.

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The Indian government, which is responsible for the development of the Indian -led military, is ready to take the necessary steps to establish a new military base in the future. The Indian government, which is responsible for the development of the Indian -led military, is ready to take the necessary steps to establish a new military base in the future. The Indian government, which is responsible for the development of the Indian -led military, is ready to take the necessary steps to establish a new military base in the future. The Indian government, which is responsible for the development of the Indian -led military, is ready to take the necessary steps to establish a new military base in the future.

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Thank you for inviting me to this important summit. It is an honor to be here in India at this pivotal moment for global AI governance. I want to express my gratitude to the government of India for hosting this landmark event and for bringing together such a diverse and distinguished group of leaders, innovators, researchers, and civil society representatives from around the world. Your commitment to inclusive dialogue and multilateral cooperation sets a powerful example for all of us. What makes artificial intelligence revolutionary is not just the speed of its development in learning, processing data, and supporting decisions. What makes it extraordinary is how directly it influences our daily lives in business, in government, in society, and in the world.

This is what I want to say in research. When we use AI wisely, it can lead to more innovation, more inclusion, and greater prosperity for all. India and Switzerland are natural partners. Both recognize that responsible AI does not hinder innovation, it enables it. Both value inclusion as a source of legitimacy. Together, we are building a bridge between ambition and implementation, between global innovation and global accountability. When civil society, tech firms, academic institutions, and communities contribute to shaping AI policy, the resulting systems are more robust, more equitable, and ultimately more trustworthy. And for this ambition, International Geneva plays a key role. Now, where else do so many international organizations, research institutes, tech companies, and think tanks meet?

This network, diplomacy, technology, science is a major strength of Switzerland. While countries take turns hosting the summit, the conversation needs a steady anchor, a place where knowledge can accumulate. Geneva plays that role today. As a global hub where diplomacy meets innovation and where humanitarian, legal, scientific and economic institutions work side by side, it offers an environment where AI governance can mature over time. This anchoring power rests on an ecosystem that goes far beyond venues and institutions. Geneva stands at the epicenter of multilateralism, hosting the International Telecommunication Union and a remarkable array of specialized agencies advancing digital transformation. The International Committee of the Red Cross is a partner. It is a pioneer in digital humanitarianism. and in addressing autonomous systems.

The World Meteorological Organization harnesses AI for climate prediction. The International Labor Organization explores AI’s impact on the future of work. The World Intellectual Property Organization addresses AI and intellectual property rights. Today, I am pleased to announce that Switzerland is ready and committed to host the AI Summit in Geneva in 2027. From the previous summits in Bletchley, Seoul and Paris to here in India and on to Switzerland, an arc is being drawn, a continuous journey leading to responsible AI governance. So Switzerland is looking forward to hosting the 2027. AI Summit in Geneva and to working with the subsequent incoming host of the 2028 AI Summit. the United Arab Emirates, as partner for the Geneva Summit. There is an ancient Indian philosophy that teaches us that we need a collective approach to achieve shared goals.

President, thank you very much for your excellent thoughts. And I am very grateful to you for inviting all of us. Now I invite Lichtenstein’s hereditary prince, His Serene Highness Prince Alois, for his speech.

Dear Prime Minister Modi, I also want to thank you very much for hosting and organizing this most important summit. Excellencies, artificial intelligence is one of the defining technological developments of our time. Yet, the question it raises extends far beyond technology, or as you, Mr. Prime Minister, said, it’s transformational. It compels states to consider how responsibility, accountability and trust can be upheld in a digital age. Technology process moves quickly. It is measured in years or even in months. Institutional trust moves more slowly. It is built over generations. AI will test our ability to align these very different rhythms For a country like Liechtenstein, thinking in generation is part of our political culture We ask not only what is possible, but what is sustainable Small states may not lead in scale, but we can lead in quality By fostering trusted environments, clear rules and predictable frameworks Where innovation can grow responsibly Our experience shows that innovation and trust are not opposing forces Innovation becomes sustainable only when it rests on the foundation of trust Responsible governance plays a critical role in achieving this balance AI brings meaningful opportunities from better public services to new business models and enhanced cross -border cooperation.

To harness this potential, we must ensure that AI serves humanity as a whole and aligns with our fundamental values. AI governance is a global challenge that requires global solutions. Cross -border collaboration is essential to ensure that the benefits of AI are shared broadly and not concentrated among few. Liechtenstein supports international cooperation to ensure that AI development is guided by responsibility. We value open dialogue between policymakers and stakeholders. We value open dialogue between policymakers and stakeholders. scientists, and industry to develop ethical and sustainable AI solutions. In this spirit, I thank India for convening this important summit and for creating the space for such dialogue. Excellencies, technology should never be an end in itself. It must serve the well -being of people and societies.

The true measure of AI’s success is whether it sustainably supports our societies today and the generations to come. I thank you.

Thank you very much. Now I would like to invite the Prime Minister of Bhutan, His Excellency, Shering Togbe, to his office. Your Excellency,

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Namaskar and Kuzhuzangbo. More than 3 ,000 years ago, India’s sages articulated profound insight on the nature of knowledge. We saw a glimpse of it in the Gyan Bharatam exhibition. In Chapter 1, Section 1, Verse 4 of the Mundaka Upanishad, for instance, these sages declared, Dway, Vidde, Viditave, Iti Hasma Yada Brahma Vido Badanti Para Chaiva Aparajya Those who know ultimate reality say that there are two kinds of knowledge to be known. Paravidya and Aparavidya That is higher knowledge and lower knowledge. Lower knowledge, Aparavidya is a mastery of skills, systems and techniques. Higher knowledge, Paravidya is wisdom, understanding meaning, responsibility and purpose. This distinction has always been important but today it is critical.

We live in a time where artificial intelligence is advancing at breakneck speed. AI can analyze enormous amounts of data and can analyze the data of the universe. It can identify patterns that we cannot see. It can take decisions at scale and at a speed that no human can match. This is the triumph of Aparavidya, technical assistance, technical excellence. But whether AI benefits humanity or not will depend entirely on Aparavidya, on wisdom. So perhaps the most important question of our time is not how intelligent our machines will become, but whether we will remain wise enough to guide them. If wisdom does not guide innovation, technology can deepen inequality, spread misinformation, and move faster than governance can respond.

It can cause destruction. So we must heed the wisdom of the clairvoyant mantra drashtas. We must balance Paravidya with Aparavidya. And where better to reflect on this balance than here in India, the birthplace of this profound insight. And who better to help lead this conversation than Your Excellency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji, my elder brother. A spiritual master whose leadership reflects the confidence of a civilization rooted in ancient wisdom. This is why Bhutan is proud to walk alongside India as you shape the future of a responsible and inclusive AI. In this shared journey, we have many opportunities for collaboration. Allow me very quickly to highlight two areas that may be especially relevant. The first one is energy.

Artificial intelligence requires enormous competition. Artificial capacity, which in turn requires unprecedented amounts of energy. Bhutan’s hydropower has long been a symbol of partnership between our two countries, India and Bhutan. We are deeply grateful to the government of India for decades of steadfast cooperation built on trust and mutual benefit. Today, we see new possibilities as we expand our renewable energy portfolio by including partnerships with leading Indian companies such as Tata Power and Adani Power. But we have opportunities to welcome many more, from India and beyond. Clean energy powers homes and industry. Now this clean renewable energy is poised to drive the next generation of digital infrastructure and AI innovation, not just in Bhutan, but in our region.

The second area for collaboration is the Gelipu Mindfulness City, or GMC. Under the visionary leadership of His Majesty the King and with the steadfast support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji, Bhutan has established the Gelipur Mindfulness City, a city as a hub for sustainable innovation and responsible enterprise. Powered by abundant clean renewable energy, GMC is designed to attract energy -intensive industries, including green data centres and AI research, enabling advanced technologies to scale on a foundation of clean renewable power. It is our vision to create a space where compute capacity grows not at the expense of the planet, but in harmony with it. Guided by environmental stewardship, ethical responsibility and Bhutan’s value -based development philosophy. This is AI with Purpose.

Not AI without limits. A technological sanctuary where higher wisdom shapes technological capacity. My friends here, these are just two of the many areas where we can collaborate on responsible and inclusive AI. If you are interested to collaborate, let’s meet here. My team, who you’ll recognize by our national dress, my team will be happy to discuss green energy and data and AI compute center investment, design of Bhutan context SLM, sovereign compute and robotic platforms with you. And if we find that we are pressed for time, or if you are seeing this message online, especially to my Indian friends, this is a message especially to my Indian friends, come and visit us in Bhutan. If you need a personal invite, my email.

My email ID is ttopgay at cabinet .gov .pt. Your Excellencies, the AI revolution will not wait for us. It will continue to move forward. The question is whether we shape it intentionally, guided by values of our ancient civilizations and the wisdom of the Upanishads, or whether we allow it to be driven by speed and scale without moral direction. History will not judge us by how advanced our technology was. It will judge us by whether that technology made our society fairer, kinder, and more humane. And it is visionary and responsible leadership that ensures such progress serves all of humanity. I see this leadership in Prime Minister Narendra Modi. My elder brother, you are a Brahmavid. And as such, it is a privilege for Bhutan to stand up for the people of Bhutan.

And to stand by India’s side as we embark on a journey together. to realize the mana vision for AI. A vision that will ensure that AI means prosperity for all. That AI means happiness for all. Thank you very.

Excellency, Bhutan has always been a place of harmony between technology and nature. I thank you very much for sharing your thoughts. I thank you very much for sharing your thoughts. Now I invite the President of Bolivia, His Excellency, His Excellency, Montania, for his speech.

The digital future must be built with equity, with ethics and, above all, with solidarity between all nations. That is why, from Bolivia, we extend our hand to work together with the Republic of India and also with the entire international community. With an artificial intelligence that is in favor of all, but of all humanity. With these words, I want to thank the hospitality. It has been an honor to be here. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Prime Minister Modi. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, namaskar. Thank you for hosting fourth Artificial Intelligence Summit in India at a moment when technological change is accelerating faster than at any time in human history. From the dawn of civilization until the year 2000, humanity produced only a few hundred exabytes of recorded information. Today, every single day, we generate almost twice the total of all previous human history. Yet, the true disruption is not only scale, but the shifting balance between verified knowledge and noise. With more than 6 billion smartphones worldwide, anyone can broadcast instantly to a global audience. The boundary between fact, opinion and manipulation is increasingly blurred. AI now produces content so convincing that truth and fabrication are harder to distinguish.

A breakthrough with immense promise but serious risks in the wrong hands. Democracy rests not on the rule of the most learned, but on the judgment of the majority. That majority remains free only if it is reasonably well informed. Otherwise, freedom of choice risks becoming the freedom of delusion. Artificial intelligence amplifies both our capability and our responsibility. It transforms healthcare, education. Business, public services and leisure. Europe has chosen a distinctive path, human -centered AI, grounded in fundamental rights, transparency and accountability. Croatia believes that in the 21st century, digital infrastructure and data governance are matters of sovereignty and resilience, not merely of technology. Two weeks ago, I chaired our National Council for Digital Transformation, and we decided that digital transformation is our core national priority for the years to come.

Six years ago, fewer than 3 out of 20 Croatian households had access to 5G. Today, 19 out of 20 do. Fiber broadband reaches 75 % of households. 5G coverage exceeds 94 % and nearly 80%. Nearly 83 % of citizens use digital public services. Infrastructure alone, however, does not define a digital nation. Talent and enterprise do. Creation technology companies are increasingly visible on the global stage. InfoBeep enables secure digital communication at a global scale across leading messaging platforms. Rimac pioneers high -performance electric and autonomous mobility systems. MicroBlink delivers AI -driven computer vision used across financial and enterprise sectors. Gideon develops autonomous robots transforming global logistics. And Infinum designs and engineers complex digital and AI -enabled products for lending international brands. Together, they demonstrate how engineering excellence and ambition translate into globally competitive innovation, along with further investments in data centers.

But innovation alone is not progress. Progress requires direction and responsibility. There, we see the key role of regulators in keeping up the pace of innovators. The decisive question is not whether we can move faster, but whether we can guide this transformation wisely. Therefore, artificial intelligence must be, as you said, Prime Minister, inclusive for all, and serve as the useful instrument of free societies. Thank you.

First, I would like to thank and congratulate government and prime minister for making this summit reality. Namaste. It comes a crucial moment when the world urgently needs shared understanding, common rules, and political will for responsible use of AI. AI is not just a tool. It is becoming a foundation of competitiveness and strategic resilience. Finland and my government is firmly committed to advancing AI in ways that are strengthening our economy, security, and our democratic societies. AI governance faces a fundamental challenge. Science moves faster than politics. That is precisely why… That is why we must act together with ambition and clarity. while keeping a human -centered and trustworthy vision at the core. In Europe, regulation must remain predictable and balanced, strong enough to safeguard our values, but smart enough to accelerate responsible technological process and fast industrial adaption.

The AI race consists of multiple marathons, not just one sprint, and we are only at the starting line. AI must serve people, not the other way around. We must address the legitimate concerns our citizens raise. Trust in public administration is built on fairness and safety. We must also bring the public sector and technology innovators close together. When a public agency finds an AI company with the right solutions, we create efficiency and better services for citizens. We are the AI. Finland is building a world -class AI ecosystem that spans research, infrastructure, and deployment. We host one of Europe’s leading supercomputing environments, Lumi, world -class research talent such as the Ellis Institute, and abundant clean computing power.

Finland hosts one of the world’s most eco -efficient data centers, powered by clean energy, with excess heat recycled into local communities. This demonstrates that technological leadership and sustainability can advance hand -in -hand. Finland welcomes the UN’s new scientific panel and AI governance dialogue and values the strong voice of the global south, values the strong voice of the European Union, and the voice of the global south highlighted on the bar. from Paris to New Delhi. The choices made now will define the role of AI in our societies for decades. Let us choose openness, security, responsibility, and shared progress. Thank you.

President, for your positive thoughts, I thank you very much. Now, I invite Greece’s Prime Minister His Excellency Mitsotakis to share his thoughts.

Thank you. Thank you, Prime Minister. Let me begin by thanking you for hosting this very important summit and for placing India and the Global South at the very center of our society. Thank you. This is the end of this global AI conversation. And the framing of this gathering that you chose around people, progress, and planet captures that artificial intelligence is not only a profound and massive technological shift, but also a civilizational one. And the choices that we make today will determine whether AI expands opportunity or whether it deepens divides. Allow me to briefly offer three reflections. First, as many of you stated, the AI dividend must be broadly shared. Every technological revolution in the history of the world has created immense wealth.

But history teaches us that the distribution of that wealth is never automatic. AI has the potential to unlock unprecedented scientific discovery, to dramatically improve healthcare, to strengthen education, to support climate research. But the question before us is simple. who benefits apart from the big tech companies and their shareholders. Within our countries, governments must ensure that workers are reskilled, small businesses have access to AI tools, public services are upgraded, the farmer, the nurse, the teacher, the small entrepreneur must feel this dividend in tangible ways. And concerns about significant labor displacement are legitimate and need to be addressed sooner rather than later. In Greece, we’re moving in that direction as digitization has made public services much more accessible.

The incorporation of AI in education will help narrow the learning divide, while advances in telemedicine, in predictive analytics, in personalized preventive care make healthcare much more accessible. More proactive, shifting it from treatment in hospitals to prevention at home. and improving the quality of life for all citizens. And among countries, we must avoid a world where access to compute, to data, and talent is concentrated in only a few geographies. And AI cannot be a story of digital concentration. It must be a story of digital inclusion. My second observation, the state itself must improve. Technology is advancing at extraordinary speeds, but too often our public institutions are operating on an outdated operating system and rules. And if we want AI to serve society, governments must significantly update their own software.

Public procurement frameworks designed for the industrial age are not fit for the AI age. And we need them to be faster, outcome -oriented, and more open to startups and innovators. Public administrations must invest in themselves. And in their own capacity. Digital talent. data infrastructure and AI literacy across ministries. This is not just about running a few pilots. We must move from experimentation to implementation at scale, as you have done, Prime Minister Modi, very successfully in India. And the countries that succeed in AI will not simply be those that built powerful models, but those that built capable states. To that end, we must choose our regulatory priorities wisely. For Greece and for me personally, protecting minors from digital addiction and online harm is a matter of intergenerational solidarity and a top priority for my government.

And I’m happy to see that many other countries are moving in that direction, and Greece will very soon announce its own decision when it comes to banning access, minors and adolescents. But this goes hand in hand. with our democratic responsibility to ensure, as the Prime Minister of Croatia mentioned, that technology strengthens the public square rather than overwhelms us with disinformation and hate. I’m all in favor of extensive dialogue with the big technology companies, but we need to be aware that if that dialogue does not produce concrete results, regulation will be the only answer. Finally, AI’s geopolitical impact should tilt towards conversion. AI is not just about code and compute. It’s part of national power, and interdependences are embedded in the AI stack, from semiconductors to cloud infrastructure, from data sets to research collaboration, and no country can build this alone, and that is why trusted partnerships matter.

In Greece, we have built partnerships with all major hyperscalers, while at the same time developing sovereign capabilities through EU support and collaboration for that AI factor is an initiative. led by national champions, attracting investment from across the globe. And balance is essential. A world in which technology is weaponized to coerce trusted partners or where excessive regulation becomes a tool to suppress innovation is a world where collective innovation declines. And if we fragment the AI ecosystem into very rigid blocks, we reduce the gains for all. And if we leverage independence responsibly, we expand opportunity for all. Ladies and gentlemen, if we ensure that the AI dividend is shared, if we modernize the state to match the technology, and if we build trusted partnerships that expand rather than fragment innovation, then AI can truly serve people, drive progress, and protect our planet.

And as I was listening to the Prime Minister of India, I thought that it is a fusion of artificial, intelligent, and ancestral intelligence, whether it’s present in ancient Sanskrit texts, or the writings of Greek philosophers that will eventually guide us towards a more prosperous and just future. And this is a message that Greece wants to send to the world and I hope that it’s one that resonates with you. Thank you.

Excellency, Thank you very much for your remarks. Now I would like to welcome His Excellency, Dr. Bharat Jagdevji, to his remarks.

Mr. Prime Minister, colleagues, I think if we are asked to imagine the world in a few years’ time, all of us would be hard -pressed. When you have a phone, that would run a model. Thank you. and that model would be smarter than the sum of all human intelligence. But the one thing that unites all of us here is that we all believe that AI can have a transformative impact on people, our countries, and on development. We come from different countries here. Some of us are from the global south, some from the global north. We have different size, capabilities, and levels of advancement of AI development and diffusion. So I want to focus today a little bit on the global south.

And if we’re to leave here today speaking of one item that has been a very important part of our lives, that has been repeated several times, one idea, which is inclusion. and not just inclusion in the diffusion of AI within countries, but among countries, then I think we have to leave this summit advancing in a very practical way how we are going to engage a significant part of the global south. And I speak here largely for those countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, Libyan, and the Pacific. Smaller countries and different size and levels of diffusion of AI. If I were to define the circumstances of those countries, what do you find? You find low levels of diffusion of AI.

You find a lack of awareness of the benefits of AI among policymakers and the technical staff. you find a great deal of skepticism about AI. Some of it because of the fright of technology. Some because of resistance from technical staff because they worry about their own obsolescence. And that’s not an ecosystem that would allow the development or the diffusion of AI at the national level. So how can we help leaving this summit? I think we have to, first of all, have a mechanism that would promote awareness among policymakers in these countries. And secondly, to help countries organize in a coherent… fashion the development and diffusion of AI in those countries, the countries with the least capacity.

Now, I’m extremely pleased we have the IMF and the United Nations here, and I listened to Secretary General about wanting to raise $3 billion to assist with capacity building and diffusion of AI. But before we get to capacity building and diffusion, I think we need a more critical ingredient, one that India has, and that has led to great success in India. Bold, innovative, enlightened leadership and a solid technical core of people who will introduce and diffuse national effort or lead national effort. Thank you. And so, in development planning, we have to assist those countries at a multilateral level, but through bilateral mechanisms. to look at the impact of AI. A country would easily spend $20 million on building a road, but $20 million spent on AI diffusion could have a transformative impact on health and education and a more lasting impact on society.

And they would not value that as much as the road, now in the current planning framework, because it’s deficient. So we have to upgrade the planning framework. And I believe we can do this easily. We have to give help to a lot of those countries. For example, my country, we’ve just gotten, we bought a model to help us in diagnostics, CT scan or read CT scans, et cetera, and MRIs. But how do I know that’s the best model in the market? Or you have a lot of carpetbagging companies that come around now, and because of unsuspecting officials, in many of these countries, we latch on to the first person who comes along. We need a system to review for quality, etc.

And that is absolutely lacking in these countries. So we do need that help there. And I think we can leave this summit with some practical assistance. And the larger countries that are represented here, and from the north and from the south, like Brazil and India, they have to commit to helping those smaller countries be able to build that capacity. I’m so pleased that in addressing the questions of a framework for ethical AI, sovereignty, and inclusion, that we are addressing it in a balanced way here at the summit. There was the fear that we would create a fortress mentality. And that we are fighting someone else. That this would be done in a balanced way. So thank you very much, and thank you for your great leadership, Prime Minister Modi, your enlightened leadership.

Thank you.

Now I invite the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, His Excellency Bhakti Noor for his speech.

Honourable Prime Minister Modi, Excellencies, dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great honour for me to be in India and to address such a distinguished audience. at the AI Impact Summit. I express my sincere appreciation to the government of India for holding this important event. India is rightly recognized as a global leader in digital transformation. Kazakhstan’s vision aligns with the India AI mission. We also believe that AI must be inclusive, sovereign, and transformative for key sectors of the economy. Today, Kazakhstan is evolving into an original digital hub. In the UN e -government development index, we rank 24th out of 193 countries. Our country is also among the top 10 worldwide in the quality of online services.

Actually, this is the real experience for our citizens, You can sell a car in five minutes and receive a fully online mortgage in 24 hours. Over 90 % of all transactions are cashless. Capitalizing on this, President Kassym -Jumat Tokayev has set a goal to transform Kazakhstan into a fully digital state within three years. AI is a strategic pillar of our national development. We have adopted an AI law and established a presidential AI development council working with global visionaries like Lee Kai -Fu, Peter Norvig, John Hopcroft, Omar Al -Olam, who is here with us today, and many others. Kazakhstan is becoming a digital bridge between East and West. We are completing the TransCaspen fiber optic line, the shortest alternative route for global data transfer.

We have deployed tools to help us to achieve the best results. largest supercomputing clusters in the region of Central Asia and in partnership with NVIDIA, establishing a sovereign AI hub. In addition, we are launching the Data Center Valley. We offer more than 1 gigawatt of capacity at competitive tariffs starting from 2 .5 US cents per kilowatt hour. I invite India’s technology champions, entrepreneurs and investors from all over the world to use Kazakhstan as a computing power hub. We offer a full support package from infrastructure to a preferential tax and regulatory regime. Another cornerstone is human capital development. Under the AI SANA program last year, 1 million people in Kazakhstan trained on AI skills. This initiative brings together dedicated learning tracks for every group, from school children and university students to entrepreneurs, to business leaders, to business leaders, to business leaders, civil servants.

The main element of this ecosystem is ALM -AI, the International Artificial Intelligence Center recently opened in Astana. It is a true R &D powerhouse and we encourage leading AI companies to establish their research hubs in Astana and in ALM -AI. Distinguished participants, Kazakhstan is ready to become a global lab for AI solutions. In 2026 has been officially declared in Kazakhstan as the year of digitalization and artificial intelligence. Throughout the year our country will serve as a meeting point for the global IT community. I invite you to join us at Digital Kazakhstan, GITX Central Asia and AI and Digital Bridge forums in shaping a new digital ecosystem for our region. We are open to new ideas, technologies and joint projects.

Thank you.

Excellency, thank you for your kind thoughts. Now I invite the Prime Minister of Mauritius, His Excellency, Dr. Ram Gulamji, to his meeting.

man’s promise. It can enhance public service delivery, it can improve decision -making, it can optimize resource management, strengthen climate resilience, and unlock new sectors of growth. Yet it also raises profound questions of ethics, of governance, equity, and trust. The ideal roadmap is the charting of a path towards the future where, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi rightly pointed out, it must serve the transformative power of AI and it must serve the whole of humanity. As the logo says, welfare for all, happiness for all. Without these dedicated initiatives, without commitment of the international community, this will have no relevance. I thank His Excellency the French President. President Emmanuel Macron gave a powerful example about this vegetable seller I think in a remote village of India who could not open a bank account because he had no fixed address, he had no education but now he can be paid through his mobile phone.

This is a powerful example of what technology can do. I myself I can tell you a small anecdote. I recently went to London at University College Hospital where I worked as a doctor to have a checkup. I was surprised. I work in the cardiac department. I was surprised. I expected they would do an ECG, an exercise ECG, an angiogram. No. It was all done by AI which would actually could see your arteries could see if there was any blockage, could see where everything was working properly. This is why I said we need this dedicated initiative. otherwise without the relevant infrastructure developing countries and in particular small island developing states that are already disadvantaged in areas like education like health, like trade will fall further behind as the Vice President of Ghana just said we must not be afraid there is this fear among we see this in many countries they think they might be losing their jobs they don’t want to think outside the box and grab new technology development look what the internet has done it has revolutionized the world as the era of AI unfolds we are reminded that small economies need rapid upskilling in order to stay competitive and in this context we published in Mauritius the Mauritius Digital Transformation Blueprint 2025 to 2029 as a bridge to the future which is strategic.

It is a strategic roadmap outlining our government’s commitment to modernizing public services and empowering our people through technology despite our limited resources. We also, I’m glad to announce establishing a specialized economic zone dedicated to digital technology and AI designed to serve as a platform not only for Mauritius but for the wider region and especially to Africa. As AI reshapes global power structure we cannot and should not act in silos. AI holds enormous promise but it also carries major risk requiring new governance frameworks for international coordination. This is precisely why strategic international partnerships must be settled. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, let this summit be a landmark in the history of humanity where we take a collective decision so that we leave no one behind.

Thank you for your attention. Thank you.

Thank you, Prime Minister Modi. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. I’d like to tell you about two books I read recently. It might sound a bit old -fashioned for a summit about AI, but you’ll understand why I’m bringing them up in a moment. The first is Clara and the Sun by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro. It’s a story of a friendship between Yoshi, a girl who’s ill, and Clara, a humanoid robot. In fact, some of the robot’s traits are so human that the boundary between human and machine seems to become blurred. The second book is Proving Ground by my favorite thriller writer, Michael Connolly. In this story, a lawyer takes on an AI company after a chatbot told a 60 -year -old boy it was okay for him to kill his girlfriend.

Two books, one highlighting a positive side of AI and the other a negative side. Both sides have a valid place in our discussion. So thank you, Prime Minister Modi, for hosting this important conference. The theme of the summit brings me straight to one of the key requirements for effective AI. Everyone must be able to participate. So I am very pleased with the focus on the Global South. Because the agreements we make must work for everyone. AI needs to serve humanity. We want to make responsible use of the opportunities created by AI. That’s why the Netherlands is presenting its first international AI strategy this year, making public AI infrastructure available for small business, government and science.

To attract and retain talent and promote data sharing. We look forward to working with industry, civil society, organizations and other countries. In particular India, a country with which we have stepped up cooperation in many, many areas. We are ready to share best practices with each other and to collaborate on future solutions. Because from food security to climate adaptation. AI can help us on the road to happiness. AI gives the opportunities to solve real -world problems, small or big. But the road we take must be responsible and safe, and that requires international governance. We are pursuing this in the United Nations through the Global Digital Compact, in the RE -AIM Summit on Responsible AI in the Military Domain, and in the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance coming up this summer.

Because innovation means progress, for us humans and for our planet. So indeed, what better motto than People, Planet, Progress. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister, and I want to thank the Government of India for their welcome and for hosting this AI Summit. Throughout these few days, we have learned many things. We have learned that Sanskrit could be the language of AI. We have also learned that AI is here to stay and that how it moves forward will depend on the buy -in that everyone carries into it. I had a very interesting meeting on my first day in India. I went to UIDI and found out about the ADA, the unique number. And India managed to give a unique number to 1 .4 billion people. And I’m thinking I have to give a unique number to 100. 25 ,000 people. And I think it’s possible.

I think it’s possible to use the technology at the expense that it has reached and integrate it within my system. I am already considered a high -income country. I already have one of the highest human development index in Africa. And therefore, integrating that technology into the processes that I have should make me or improve what I provide to the people. So, we have acknowledged AI as a multidimensional technology that will transform the lives of people and society and it should do so at an unprecedented rate. We’ve also viewed the multiple dimensions of power that exist, including its bases, resources like data, but also means the aspect of energy. And as a small country and as a small island developing state, as echoed by Mauritius, we do not have the same access to the technology.

As does bigger and larger countries. at the same time as we go along the continuum and the transformation of transforming our economic base and as we improve as small island developing states we do not get the same benefit as countries that form part of major international blocs and we do not again benefit from concessionary loans nor credit facilities as do international blocs nor do we benefit from subsidies so therefore we need to rely on partners like India who are prepared to transform or transcend the technology barrier and make that technology accessible for the countries and that is what is necessary because we do not have the capacity to invest in the R &D that is required to make that technology available to us ladies and gentlemen in small countries like the Seychelles we do not have oil we do not have minerals but we have a human capital and that is what is necessary for the development of the R &D that is required to make that technology available to us a human capital that has utilized and valued what it has and has transformed the society and turned it into a democratic, peaceful, stable and secure one, an example to the world and therefore in that process we feel the harnessing the power of AI in areas like improving the efficiency of our government, diversification of the economy and building resilience improving the quality of life, reducing the cost of living and sure food security, biosecurity and biosafety are the areas in which we want to go to but to achieve that as small island developing states we need a buy -in from larger states so we welcome the approach taken by India and we hope and support India and as part of the Indian Ocean region so we can move forward Thank you sir applause applause applause applause excellency Thank you.

Thank you.

This is not by chance. It is the result of a clear strategy based on sustained public investment, European cooperation, and a firm commitment to building technological sovereignty. The Telefonica LED initiative to deploy one of the European AI gigafactories in Spain illustrates our capacity and ambition. The same spirit guides our use of AI in the public sector with a simple goal, better public services and less bureaucracy. And we are succeeding. The OECD recognizes Spain as a leader in AI in public administration. So we believe in AI for good. But while we believe in technology, we insist that it must be guided by human values. AI should expand human freedom, democracy, rights, not undermine them. We will also combat AI for bad.

Because progress without ethics is not progress. An innovation without purpose is not leadership. It is a failure. AI accelerates, and our response must accelerate too. Risks such as extreme concentration of power induced by malicious actors or loss of human control are real and growing, and we must tackle them. We must also face the environmental cost of AI or the risk of massive job displacement. Therefore, if we want AI to reach its full potential, we must confront this risk, because the current safeguards fall short, and the response must be twofold. First, governments must work through their national frameworks. That is why my country, Spain, promoted the Charter of Digital Rights back in 2021 and created Europeans’ first, AI supervisory agency.

And second, we need an inclusive global governance framework with the UN as our vehicle of choice. I want to congratulate the UN for the establishment of the AI expert panel last week. I think this is critical, a critical milestone. My country is looking forward to hosting its first meeting in the next months. We also just hosted the third RE -AIM summit because the use of AI in the military is here to stay, but we need to ensure that it complies with international law, contributing to international peace and security. The AI Spain wants is safe, transparent, and aligned with the SDGs, and that is our commitment. AI in the general interest, not in the hands of a few.

AI for good, not for bad. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Prime Minister Modi. Namaste. Namaste. I want to start with a small story of me and my granddaughter. Me telling her how when I was her age, there were no computers, no TV. And she looking up at me and saying, so you only had iPads. The moral of this story is that we live at the time of very rapid transformation. And AI is going to put this transformation on steroids. I want to talk about the economic impact and also the gratitude I have towards India on taking AI to be for everyone. So, economic impact. We calculated at the IMF that the potential for productivity growth and economic growth from AI over the next years is significant.

It could give up to 0 .8 % boost to global growth. That would bring growth above the pre -pandemic trend. Above. Above it. And that can have tremendous benefits for society. We also look at the likely impact of AI on the job markets. And there, what we see over the next years is… that AI is coming like a tsunami, hitting the job markets. We estimate that globally about 40 % of jobs will be impacted, either enhanced or some eliminated. And in advanced economies like Sweden, it would be 60%. So the question is, are we ready for this transformation? And Prime Minister Mitsotakis talked about it. Not quite yet. We have to pay very close attention to what is going to happen where jobs would become more productive, but also what is going to happen to those tasks that are likely to be eliminated.

So here is a very interesting… piece of research we recently have done. It tells a fascinating story. What we see already is that people with the right talents that can apply new skills are on high demand and they are paid much better than people that do not have these new skills. Now, what is the impact of that? They have more money in their pockets, they spend more on restaurants, on tourism, and as a result, low -skilled jobs increase and people for these jobs are on high demand. Overall impact on employment, positive. For one job with AI skills, we see 1 .3%. Coming up because of this spread of money to demand for other jobs. The jobs in the middle that are neither enhanced nor on higher demand, they get squeezed.

And the most dangerous impact we see now is that routine tasks that are often started jobs for young people, they get automated and washed away. So what is the moral of the story? We have to pay more attention to how we prepare people for the job market of tomorrow. Now, I want to come to the point that is most exciting to me from this AI summit. And it is India’s relentless focus on the human dimension of AI. And it is India’s relentless focus on the human dimension of AI. Delivering real benefits for real people, never forgetting the least fortunate amongst us. And I want to wholeheartedly thank you, Prime Minister Modi, for doing that. And thank you for your practicality, for the accessibility and reach of the models you develop.

Because when some choose to impose large fees, you favor open source approach. And that, I think, is what distinguishes India. Beyond that, to the President of Guyana, of Mauritius, what you do is you think about bringing AI to do good for others. And in that sense, you are on the forefront of making things happen with the unique focus on, you know, democratizing AI. And I want to finish by recalling another time, the time of HIV AIDS, when people were dying and India came with cheap treatments that saved millions of lives. And I do wish from the bottom of my heart that you repeat this success story in the world of AI. Practical Indian AI for all.

Thank you.

I have received the conversion. This is a symbol of our shared commitment that together we can make artificial intelligence a possible medium for human welfare, social development and collective development. I am confident that today’s thoughts will help us to make our efforts in the global arena a new direction and a new trend. Keeping in mind the priorities of Global South, we must ensure that AI’s development is not limited to the human resources. We must ensure that AI’s development is not limited to the human resources. We must ensure that AI’s development is not limited to the human resources. We must ensure that AI’s development is not limited to the human resources. Thank you. And to fulfill the creative cooperation and strategic role, I have always been committed and will continue to be so.

Once again, I thank you all for your valuable contribution. And now our session ends. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Once again.