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    COVER STORY                                                        FEBRUARY 27, 2026       |  The Indian Eye                    4

                                                       GLOBAL AI RACE

              INDIA LEADS

                                   CHANGE

                At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, New Delhi positions itself not merely as a

               participant in the artificial intelligence revolution, but as a leader determined to
                          democratize, regulate and deploy AI at scale for the Global South.

            OUR BUREAU
            New Delhi/Washington
                   ew Delhi is no longer content
                   to be seen as the world’s back
            Noffice  for  technology.  At  the
            India AI Impact Summit 2026, Prime
            Minister Narendra Modi made it
            clear that India intends to be at the
            forefront of the artificial intelligence
            revolution — not just as a market
            or talent hub, but as an agenda-set-
            ter shaping how AI is governed, de-
            ployed and scaled globally.
                “I welcome you all to the most
            historic AI Summit in the world. In-
            dia is the center of the world’s largest
            tech pool. It is a matter of pride for
            the Global South that the AI summit
            is being organized in India,” Modi
            said in his keynote address at Bharat
            Mandapam.
                The  symbolism  was  deliberate.
            The Summit, running from February
            16 to 20, is the first global AI gather-
            ing to be hosted in the Global South.
            With over 20 Heads of State, 60 Min-
            isters and 500 global AI leaders in at-   Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the CEO’s Roundtable Meeting at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, in New Delhi on Thursday (DPR PMO/ANI Photo)
            tendance, India used the platform to
            articulate a vision rooted in inclusion,   today, what we are predicting, is just   translation. In a post on X, he noted,   eign leaders repeatedly cited as proof
            accessibility and sovereign capability.  the beginning of its impact,” he said.  “My speech at the AI Impact Sum-  that India can deploy technology at
                   Democratizing AI               Central to India’s pitch is the   mit included real-time translation in   population scale.
                                              idea of democratizing AI. “Bharat   sign language using AI. It reflects our   French President Emmanuel
                    odi framed AI not merely   beneficially  looks  at  AI,  and  that’s   commitment to accessibility and in-  Macron praised India’s digital trans-
                    as a technological leap but   why we chose ‘Sarwajan Hitaye, Sar-  clusion when it comes to AI. We will   formation as a global benchmark.
            Mas a civilizational shift.       wajan Sukhaye’ as our theme. We   always work to ensure that technolo-  “India built something that no other
                “When  signals  were  first  trans-  need AI to be democratic for all,   gy and public discourse are accessi-  country in the world has built. A dig-
            mitted wirelessly, no one imagined   especially the Global South,” Modi   ble to persons with disabilities.”  ital identity for 1.4 billion people. A
            that the entire world would one day   emphasized.                       This focus on inclusion ties into   payment system that now processes
            be connected in real time. Artificial   The Prime Minister highlight-  India’s broader digital public infra-  20 billion transactions every month.
            Intelligence is such a transformation   ed how his own speech included re-  structure model — Aadhaar, UPI   A health infrastructure that has is-
            of human history. What we are seeing   al-time AI-powered sign language   and digital health IDs — which for-  Continued on next page... >>

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