Abhishek Singh

Abhishek Singh, a 1995‑batch IAS officer and alumnus of IIT Kanpur and Harvard Kennedy School, currently serves as additional secretary at MeitY and CEO of the IndiaAI Mission as well as the director general of the Indian government’s National Informatics Centre.

He heads India’s ambitious five‑year, $1.2 billion AI strategy, securing over 10,000 GPUs, overseeing 67 foundational model proposals, and building open-access platforms like AIKosh for data sharing and voice‑based LLMs tailored to India’s diverse needs.

Singh is deeply committed to responsible and inclusive AI. He insists government-backed models should address real-world problems, be trained on local datasets, and adhere to ethical standards. He likens building trust in AI to early aviation, stressing accountability, explainability, and public confidence.

Beyond funding and infrastructure, Singh drives adoption through public-sector deployments, such as voice-enabled citizen services like UPI, and AI-powered tools in governance, including trademark search and IP-Saarthi chatbots.

His strategy strikes a balance between innovation and oversight, urging frequent upskilling to meet the AI moment and warning against job loss due to automation.