India AI Impact Summit to push for global consensus on curbing harmful use of AI: MeitY's Abhishek Singh

Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

• IndiaAI Summit seeks global consensus to prevent harmful AI uses
• Summit focuses on deepfakes, misinformation, and misuse of frontier AI models
• India-US GPU trade deal supports India's sovereign AI hardware initiative.

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The IndiaAI Impact Summit will focus on building international agreement on preventing harmful uses of artificial intelligence, particularly in areas such as deepfakes and misinformation, Abhishek Singh, additional secretary in the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) and the IndiaAI Mission CEO, has said .

Singh said there is broad alignment among democracies on the need to restrict AI-driven harms.

"Everybody also agrees that the harm that AI can cause has to be restricted… harm with deepfakes, harm with misinformation," he said in an interview to Moneycontrol.

He added that protecting society from misuse of frontier AI models would form the foundation of any international governance framework emerging from the summit.

"Whenever the use of AI results in any application or use case that can cause harm to individuals or society or nations, especially with regard to public order, communal harmony or child sexual abuse or pornography, then there is sufficient level of agreement on all these issues," Singh said.

Singh pointed to recent coordinated global responses to problematic AI features as an example of how consensus can be built.

Referring to restrictions placed on AI image generation tools, such as Grok, he said India’s intervention was followed by similar action in other jurisdictions.

"These will be the base for coming out with an international agreement," Singh said. He added that the summit’s working groups are negotiating language that reflects such shared principles.

The India AI Impact Summit, will be held from February 16 to February 20 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.

The India-US interim trade agreement's emphasis on expanding trade in graphics processing units (GPUs) will complement, not conflict with, New Delhi's push to build its own sovereign AI hardware, he said.

On February 7, India and USA in a joint statement committed to "significantly increase trade in technology products, including Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and other goods used in data centers".

"There will be enough space for both and India is such a huge country, there will be workloads which will need sovereign Indian GPUs. There will be some workloads which may not need it. So, it is not that it is an either/or (situation). There is enough space for both to contribute and thrive," he said.