India hosted tens of tens of thousands of delegates from over a hundred countries for an artificial intelligence summit this week.The guest list included those shaping the future of AI, such as Sam Altman of OpenAI, Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Demis Hassabis of DeepMind. Heads of state, including French President Emmanuel Macron, Brazil's Lula da Silva, along with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, also attended.
Although India used the summit to portray itself as a player in the global AI race, including by platforming home-grown AI startups, its place in that world remains more modest than the optics suggested.
However, even if India is not developing frontier AI models, the summit showed New Delhi wants its voice heard about the impacts of AI on developing countries and on whose terms AI is built and deployed.
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