New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- At the AI Impact Summit, Anthropic's CEO frames India's AI moment as an economic transition challenge, not just a technology race. Whenconversations around artificial intelligence in India often centre on models, compute and talent pipelines, Dario Amodei offered a different lens at the AI Impact Summit: the real test for India will be managing the speed of economic disruption that AI is about to unleash.

Speaking in New Delhi, the Anthropic CEO positioned India not as a follower in the global AI race but as a country with a "central role" in shaping how AI-driven growth translates into broad-based prosperity, especially across emerging economies.

"India has an absolutely central role to play in these questions and...