{"id":1037644,"date":"2026-09-22T09:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037644"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:52:35","slug":"ai-must-serve-humanity-humans-should-be-in-control-says-microsoft-india-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/22\/ai-must-serve-humanity-humans-should-be-in-control-says-microsoft-india-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"AI must serve humanity, humans should be in control, says Microsoft India chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a global debate rages over AI safety, Microsoft India and South Asia President Puneet Chandok on Monday said the tech company strongly believes that Artificial Intelligence must remain focused on serving humanity, with humans firmly in control of the technology. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview to PTI, Chandok said there is \u201creal energy\u201d in India around deploying, diffusing and innovating with AI, and that the country is not just consuming technology but also building it, as evidenced in Microsoft\u2019s own operations here. The company has more than 23,000 engineers across 10 cities in India and the largest R&amp;D lab outside the US, underscoring the nation\u2019s growing role in developing AI technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a global debate rages over AI safety, Microsoft India and South Asia President Puneet Chandok on Monday said the tech company strongly believes that Artificial Intelligence must remain focused on serving humanity, with humans firmly in control of the technology. In an interview to PTI, Chandok said there is \u201creal energy\u201d in India around deploying, diffusing and innovating with AI, and that the country is not just consuming technology but also building it, as evidenced in Microsoft\u2019s own operations here. The company has more than 23,000 engineers across 10 cities in India and the largest R&amp;D lab outside the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037655,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037644\/revisions\/1037655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}