New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on human lives and advocated for equitable access to its benefits, particularly for developing nations, during his address at the global AI summit in Paris on Tuesday.
Co-chairing the summit with French President Emmanuel Macron, PM Modi highlighted AI’s transformative potential while cautioning against its inherent biases.
Addressing a global audience, Modi stressed the importance of the collaborative development of open-source AI systems to foster trust and transparency.
Here are the key highlights from PM Modi’s speech
- AI is already reshaping our polity, our economy, our society.
- AI is writing the code for Humanity in this century
- We must pull together our resources and talent to develop open-source systems that enhance trust and transparency and develop quality datasets free from biases in order to benefit the world.
- AI must be about people-centric applications. We must address concerns related to cyber security, disinformation, and deep fakes.
- Governance is also about ensuring access to all, especially in the Global South. It is where the capabilities are most lacking be it power, talent, or data for the financial resources.
- AI can help transform millions of lives by improving health, education, agriculture and so much more.
- AI can help create a world in which the journey to sustainable development goals becomes easier and faster.
- We must build quality data centres free from biases, we must democratise technology and create people centre applications.
- We must also ensure that technology is rooted in local ecosystems for it to be effective and useful.
- Loss of jobs is AI’s most feared disruption, but history has shown that work does not disappear due to technology, only its nature changes.
- We need to invest in skilling and re-skilling our people for an AI-driven future.
- AI is developing at an unprecedented scale and speed and being adapted and deployed even faster.
- There is also a deep interdependence across borders. Therefore, there is a need for collective global efforts to establish governance and standards that upload our shared values, address risks, and build trust.
- If you upload your medical report to an AI app, it can explain in simple language, free of any jargon what it means for your health.
- But if you ask the same app to draw an image of someone writing with their left hand, the app will most likely draw someone writing with their right hand.
- India and France have worked together for years through initiatives like the International Solar Alliance to harness the power of the Sun.
- As we advance our partnership with AI, it is a natural progression from sustainability to innovation to shape a smarter and responsible future.
- At the same time, sustainable AI does not only mean using clean energy. AI models must also be efficient and sustainable in size, data needs and resource requirements.
- After all, the human brain manages to compose poetry and design spaceships using less power than most light bulbs.
- We are at the dawn of the AI age that will shape the course of humanity.
- I am grateful to my friend President Macron for hosting this summit and for inviting me to co-chair it.
