Fears of AI many, but potential, opportunity supersede: MEITY secy

The dread around AI taking over and its ill-effects reasonably exists, but India’s potential to seize the opportunity overpowers it, MEITY Secretary said on Wednesday.

While delivering a keynote address at the Global India AI Summit, the Ministry of Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said the risks of AI are is much more exaggerated on the western side of the world.

Krishnan said there is hope, expectation, and potential in India, driven by its education system, and that a lot of the background AI work, AI adaptation, and application building can be done in India far more economically than elsewhere.