AI Impact Summit to yield minimum 15 deliverables, says IT Ministry official

AI Impact Summit aims for at least 15 actionable outcomes with delegates from over 100 countries, says IT Ministry official.

The government is aiming for “at least fifteen” outcomes from the AI Impact Summit to be hosted in the national capital next week, a senior official in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) said.

The summit, expected to be one of the largest global gatherings on artificial intelligence, will see participation from more than 100 countries. Heads of state or government of Brazil, France, Spain, Greece, Estonia, Finland, Croatia, Switzerland and Slovakia are among those expected attend. 

“When we started planning the summit, we got a clear direction from our honourable Prime Minister that this should not be only a ‘talking shop’ wherein experts come and give gyan (deliver lectures)on all the subjects and nothing happens,” Abhishek Singh, additional secretary at MeitY, said in a video released by the Ministry this week. “It was very clear that we have to come to tangible deliverables and outcomes,” Mr. Singh said.

“The final deliverables will be announced at the summit, but there will be at least fifteen concrete ones,” Mr. Singh said. The government has made arrangements to accommodate over 1.5 lakh visitors at Bharat Mandapam, the exposition centre that hosted the G20 Summit in 2023. Officials indicated that attendance could match or even exceed the turnout recorded during the 2023 event. 

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It remains unclear whether the outcomes will lead to the formation of a multilateral body to deal with AI governance and ethics. MeitY secretary S. Krishnan, in an interview with The Hindu, said, “Whether there will be another international body like the International Solar Alliance, I don’t really know. We may not do it as a regular body.”