INDIA - AI Summit Draws Global Leaders

Billed as the first high-level AI gathering to be held in the Global South, the India AI Impact Summit has given the world’s most populous country a stage to promote itself as a global AI player, broadening the AI conversation to include countries in Latin America, Africa and beyond.

“The solutions presented here—in agriculture, security, assistance for persons with disabilities, and addressing the needs of multilingual populations—are powerful examples of Made in India strength and India’s innovative capabilities,” Modi said in a speech.

[India’s] digital public infrastructure—such as internet connectivity, digital payments and digital ID—is “better than most of the developed world, said Jakob Mökander from the Tony Blair Institute.

“They are quite proud about it, that it’s sort of a third way between China’s open-source and closed-source U.S. AI,” he said.

“It is critical to understand what works, what doesn’t, and who benefits so AI applications can be designed to maximize social benefits and mitigate unintended harms,” said Iqbal Dhaliwal, global executive director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT.

-www.nbcnews.com, 20 February 2026

Commentary: The artificial intelligence (AI) issue is now global. Who should benefit from what, and when? Innumerable ideas were at the heart of multiple discussions by internationalists. One thing becomes clear: AI is not an isolated issue for one particular nation, but all of planet earth is involved.

Where will it lead? In the short term, no one really knows precisely, but AI is utilized in manufacturing, distribution, and retail, not to mention all the administrative and support functions needed to produce these goods.

This reminds us of Revelation 13:17: “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” That will yet be fulfilled.