External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday called for regulation, guardrails and greater inclusiveness in the development of artificial intelligence, arguing that the technology will be far more pervasive and consequential for everyday life than any previous technological shift. Speaking in conversation with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi, he said AI demands a serious debate about responsibility and its practical applications.
Jaishankar said it was difficult to find a parallel for the scale of the AI moment, and that comparisons with nuclear technology only went so far.
Why AI is unlike nuclear technology
"Nuclear technology was regulated, but there were very limited users," Jaishankar observed, adding that artificial intelligence would be different in kind. He described AI as "the mother of all technologies", saying it would be far more pervasive and impactful on everyday life, and that everybody would have a stake in it.
Beyond chips and compute
The minister said public discussion of AI remains fixated on technology leaders, computing power, chips, energy, water and financing. Greater attention, he said, must go to where AI will actually be used and what consequences those applications will carry for people — the use cases, the places they will arise, and what they will mean in practice.
His remarks come as governments and industry weigh how to govern AI systems that are moving rapidly from laboratories and data centres into classrooms, hospitals, factories and government offices across the world.
Sources: Lokmat Times (ANI): 'Mother of all technologies': EAM Jaishankar calls for AI guardrails, inclusiveness
Jaishankar said it was difficult to find a parallel for the scale of the AI moment, and that comparisons with nuclear technology only went so far.
Why AI is unlike nuclear technology
"Nuclear technology was regulated, but there were very limited users," Jaishankar observed, adding that artificial intelligence would be different in kind. He described AI as "the mother of all technologies", saying it would be far more pervasive and impactful on everyday life, and that everybody would have a stake in it.
Beyond chips and compute
The minister said public discussion of AI remains fixated on technology leaders, computing power, chips, energy, water and financing. Greater attention, he said, must go to where AI will actually be used and what consequences those applications will carry for people — the use cases, the places they will arise, and what they will mean in practice.
His remarks come as governments and industry weigh how to govern AI systems that are moving rapidly from laboratories and data centres into classrooms, hospitals, factories and government offices across the world.
Sources: Lokmat Times (ANI): 'Mother of all technologies': EAM Jaishankar calls for AI guardrails, inclusiveness
