New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- Keeping up the momentum of the 2023 Bletchley Park and 2024 Seoul AI Safety talks, global leaders have gathered at this year's AI Action Summit in Paris to forge a consensus on the regulation and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) for the common good. The agenda of this huddle focuses on public-service AI, the future of work, innovation and culture, trust in AI and global governance.

India, co-chairing talks with France, aims to bolster its position in the global AI ecosystem and collaborate with EU nations on issues such as climate change and energy use. However, we face a major hurdle in recent US curbs on the export of advanced chips to India, which clouds our ambition to compete with today's AI leaders: ...