AI’s Potential Is Amazing, but We Must Address Biases Carefully: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

At the AI Action Summit in Paris, France, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is co-chairing the event with France's President Emmanuel Macron, outlined his thoughts and ambitions for artificial intelligence. 

He said, “AI is writing the code for humanity in this century,” and expressed his views on the values that shape a powerful and responsible AI system. 

“We must build quality datasets free from biases. We must democratise technology and create people-centric applications. We must address concerns related to cybersecurity, disinformation, and deep threats, and we must also ensure that technology is rooted in many ecosystems for it to be effective and useful,” said Modi. 

Moreover, he emphasised the development of open-source models that prioritise trust and transparency.

Similarly, he spoke about a pressing problem in AI models: the biases that occur in training data. 

“If you ask the same app to draw an image of someone writing with their left hand, the app will most likely draw someone writing with the right hand because that is what the training data is dominated by,” he said, indicating that while AI models are powerful, developers need to be careful about the biases as well. 

Earlier during the summit, it was also reported by HT, citing sources, that India intends to host the next global AI summit between November 2025 and December 2026. 

Modi also reinforced the announcement made by IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw a few days ago, saying that “India is building its own AI model” and added that the country has the world’s largest AI talent pool. 

India’s initiative to build its own AI models will be led by the IndiaAI Compute Facility, which has acquired 18,000 GPUs. 

That said, he also urged the need for upskilling, which was also reflected in India’s 2025 Union Budget. 

The government allocated ₹500 crore to set up a Centre of Excellence in AI for education, which will use AI to improve India’s education system. 

Furthermore, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated ₹2,000 crore for the IndiaAI mission—nearly a fifth of the scheme’s ₹10,370 crore announced last year. 

Ever since the launch of China’s DeepSeek AI models, India has been wide awake and pushing to build a model of its own. Paras Chopra, founder of LossFunk, said at a talk at the Machine Learning Developers Conference (MLDS) 2025 that India doesn’t need to look far for inspiration. 

“We’ve done it in areas like space, and there’s no reason why we can’t do the same in AI,” Chopra said. 

He also said, “If OpenAI has 600 employees, are we really imagining that India doesn’t have 600 similar talented people? I refuse to believe that,” indicating that India must utilise its talent pool to the fullest.