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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the audience at the Grand Palais during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris.(AP)
While advocating for the equitable distribution of AI benefits, particularly for the Global South, PM Modi also warned about biases in artificial intelligence. He further addressed concerns over job losses due to AI and underlined the need to find solutions to mitigate its impact.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed a global Artificial Intelligence (AI) summit organised in Paris. The Prime Minister talked in length about how Artificial Intelligence is playing a crucial role in daily lives of humans. While advocating for the equitable distribution of AI benefits, particularly for the Global South, PM Modi also warned about biases in artificial intelligence. He further addressed concerns over job losses due to AI and underlined the need to find solutions to mitigate its impact.
“We must pull together our resources and talent and 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 cybersecurity, disinformation, and deepfakes,” PM Modi said.
PM Modi is co-chairing the AI Action Summit with French President Emmanuel Macron.
“We must develop open-source systems that enhance trust and transparency. We must build quality data centres free from biases. We must democratise technology and create people-centric applications. We must address concerns related to cybersecurity, disinformation, and deepfakes,” PM Modi said.
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,” the Prime Minister added.
“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 uphold our shared values, address risks, and build trust,” Modi added.
The Prime Minister further asserted that governance is about ensuring access to everyone, especially in the Global South.
“It is where the capabilities are most lacking, be it power, talent, or data for financial resources. AI can help transform millions of lives by improving health, education, agriculture, and so much more. It can help create a world in which the journey to sustainable development goals becomes easier and faster. To do this, we must pull together resources and talent. We must develop open-source systems that enhance trust and transparency. We must build quality datasets free from biases,” ANI quoted Modi as saying.
( Source ANI)
