Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who co-chaired the AI Action Summit in France alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, told that artificial intelligence is writing the 21st century’s “code for humanity.”

Already, artificial intelligence is changing our culture, economy, politics, and security. This century, AI is scripting the code for humanity. However, compared to earlier technological turning points in human history, it is significantly different. Artificial Intelligence is evolving at a never-before-seen pace, and it is being modified and implemented even more quickly. There is also a strong cross-border interdependence.

“AI is evolving at a pace and scale never seen before. There is also a strong border-based interdependence, and it is being deployed and modified even more quickly. Global cooperation is required to create norms and governance that support our joint endeavors, mitigate risks, and foster confidence,” He stated.

The Prime Minister explained AI in simple terms and gave an example of the human touch by saying that an AI app can provide a health recommendation free of medical jargon if a medical report is uploaded to it. However, if the app is asked to draw a picture of someone writing with their left hand, it is likely to draw a picture of someone writing with their right hand.

He also remarked that the world will need to carefully consider artificial intelligence and voiced reservations about its potential vices. He added, “AI is already changing our economy, security, quality, and even our society.”

He emphasized that AI has the potential to improve health, education, agriculture, and a host of other areas, thereby changing the lives of millions of people. It can contribute to the creation of a future where achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is simpler and quicker. We need to pool our resources and talent to do this. We need to create open-source systems that improve transparency and confidence.

He said that AI’s “most feared disruption” is job loss and advocated for investing in people’s skill development and retraining for a future driven by AI. He advocated democratizing technology, developing programs that focus on people, and tackling issues with deepfakes, disinformation, and cybersecurity.

The PM also mentioned AI’s potential to replace human labor. AI’s biggest feared disruption is jobs, yet history demonstrates that technology does not eliminate work. Its character shifts, and new kinds of work are produced. In order to prepare for an AI-driven future, we must invest in retraining and skilling our workforce,” he stated.

He claimed that the human brain uses less energy than most light bulbs to create spaceships and compose poetry. Along with highlighting India’s achievements in the tech sector, PM Modi said that the country had constructed a digital public infrastructure for more than 1.4 billion people at a relatively low cost.

“With our architecture for data empowerment and protection, we have unleashed the power of data and made digital commerce accessible and democratic for everyone,” he continued.

India is currently at the forefront of adopting AI and developing techno-legal solutions for data privacy. We have one of the biggest AI talent pools in the world and are creating AI applications for the general public’s benefit. Taking into account our diversity, India is creating its own extensive language model.

Our companies and researchers may access resources like computer power at a reasonable price thanks to our special public-private cooperation model,” the PM added.