- Thursday, February 27, 2025
Arati Prabhakar said Indian PM Narendra Modi made a wonderful joke while addressing the US Congress last month, saying he thought AI stood for America, India.
By: Shubham Ghosh
THE US and like-minded nations such as India require to join hands to shape the course of artificial intelligence (AI), Arati Prabhakar, science adviser to president Joe Biden said on Friday (21).
The Biden administration has roped in a number of information technology (IT) giants such as Google and Microsoft to ensure that it is not misused and used for public good.
Speaking to Press Trust of India in an interview, Prabhakar, an Indian-American, said, “The work that we are doing includes working with companies to hold them accountable and there’s some important progress on that today. We’re also working on executive actions that we can take within existing law, and the President is considering an executive order that we think can really boost our ability to deal with AI’s harms and also start using it for good.”
Prabhakar, director of the office of science and technology policy, also said that they will continue to work with the Congress on bipartisan legislation while putting legislation forward.
“Then critically and underpinning all of this is the work that we’re doing globally with our international partners and allies, including with India,” she was quoted as saying by the news agency.
“And that is because this is a global technology. It’s everywhere. Everyone is participating and it’s really affecting, it’s going to affect everyone’s lives and we want to make sure that like-minded countries work together to shape the course of AI,” Prabhakar said in response to a question.
She said AI was one of the key topics of discussion when Biden met Indian prime minister Narendra Modi in Washington in June.
“I think that’s very much on the minds of our global leaders when they meet with president Biden. That’s what happened with prime minister Modi and many others. I had the opportunity to be at Congress when the prime minister spoke and then at the state dinner and then again at the luncheon that the vice president and the Secretary of State hosted and artificial intelligence came up repeatedly in those conversations,” she said.
“In fact, the prime minister made a wonderful joke when he addressed Congress and he said he thought AI stood for America, India, which is another way of interpreting it. But I think really the theme of many of the conversations that have happened is exactly what you’re saying is we’re going to have to link arms and be clear about how to achieve safe AI so all of our citizens can benefit from it,” Prabhakar said.
(With agency inputs)
