India wants to foster agreement to use AI for the benefit of society while limiting its negative effects. Vaishnaw Ashwini
India Pushes Global Consensus on Ethical AI Use, Plans Major GPU and Investment Expansion: Ashwini Vaishnaw
Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday said India is working to build global consensus on the ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence, aiming to ensure the technology benefits humanity while limiting risks arising from misuse.
Speaking on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit, Vaishnaw said the government will engage global leaders to align on frameworks that promote proper AI deployment and safeguards.
“We’ll have the summit where we will try to create a consensus among the global leaders about good, proper and right use of AI so artificial intelligence can be used for the benefit of humanity and we can contain the harms which may come from improper use,” he said.
The minister added that India is expecting investments worth about $200 billion over the next two years across five layers of the AI technology stack, spanning infrastructure, models, platforms, applications and services.
Highlighting momentum in the startup ecosystem, Vaishnaw said venture capital interest in deeptech companies is rising and expressed confidence that at least 50 globally competitive deeptech startups will emerge from India in the coming years.
As part of infrastructure expansion under the IndiaAI Mission, the government will place an order for 20,000 additional graphics processing units (GPUs) within the next week, with deployment planned over the following six months.
“We are expecting another 20,000 GPUs over and above the 38,000 GPUs that we already have in the common compute layer,” he said, noting that these shared resources are intended for startups, researchers and students who need access to high-performance computing.
Vaishnaw said a larger and expanded version of the IndiaAI Mission is also being planned, modeled on the country’s digital public infrastructure approach, to make AI capabilities broadly accessible.
“Our government is focused on keeping technology accessible to the entire large section of people who would like to use it,” he said, emphasizing that democratized access to compute and tools remains a central policy objective.
