"India celebrates 80 years of independence from the UK in August 2027. At about that same moment, early versions of true super intelligence could emerge, said Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, this week. It's a looming coincidence that raised a charged question at the AI Impact summit in Delhi, hosted by India's prime minister, Narendra Modi: can India avoid returning to the status of a vassal state when it imports AI to raise the prospects of its 1.4 billion people?"
"Modi's hunger to harness AI's capability is great. He compared it on Thursday to a turning point that resets the direction of civilisation, such as when the first sparks were struck from stone. The most common analogy heard among the thousands of visitors to the summit was the dawn of electricity, but Modi was talking about fire. Visitors arrive at the AI Impact summit in New Delhi, India. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty"
"His desire to use AI to supercharge Indian economic growth is matched by that of big US tech companies. OpenAI, Google and Anthropic all played prominent roles at the summit, announcing deals to get ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude AIs into more people's hands. The Trump administration, seeing AI as central to its battle for supremacy with China, was clearing the path for the three AI companies."
India will reach 80 years of independence in August 2027 as early versions of true superintelligence could emerge around the same time. The AI Impact summit in Delhi posed whether importing AI could recreate technological dependence or instead lift prospects for 1.4 billion people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi framed AI as a civilisational turning point comparable to fire and sought to harness AI for rapid economic growth. Major US firms OpenAI, Google and Anthropic announced partnerships to expand ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude access. The US signed the Pax Silica to align India with American tech while warning of Chinese cyber threats. India lacks domestic semiconductors, power and gigawatt datacentres, making its choice of AI partners consequential.
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