What is About :
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- AI reshaping human civilization; unlocks opportunities across all domains.
- For developing nations: Chance to leapfrog traditional development paths.
- Multi-modal, multi-lingual AI → scalable access to services & inclusive growth.
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2. Global Governance Momentum (Last 4 Years)
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- G20 AI Principles.
- UN & GPAI Resolutions.
- African Declaration on AI.
- Hamburg Declaration on Responsible AI.
- Consensus: AI impact is borderless → needs coordinated global action.
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Guiding Vision and Direction of the India AI Impact Summit:
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- "India looks forward to welcoming the world to the AI Impact Summit in February 2026. We have picked the theme of Sarvajana Hitaya, Sarvajana Sukhaya or welfare for all, happiness for all."______________________Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India.
- India’s AI strategy is based on the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision to democratize the use of technology. It aims to address India centric challenges, create economic and employment opportunities for all…_______________Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon'ble Minister of Electronics & IT ,Government of India.
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The Three Sutras:
The India - AI Impact Summit will be anchored on three foundational pillars, known as 'Sutras'—a Sanskrit term meaning guiding principles or essential threads that weave together wisdom and action. These three Sutras define how AI can be harnessed through multilateral cooperation for collective benefit.
People
The People Sutra envisions AI as a force for human progress—respecting cultural diversity, preserving dignity, and ensuring inclusion in its design and deployment. It affirms that technology must remain human-centred, advance people-first development while upholding safety, trust, and shared benefit.
Planet
The Planet Sutra calls for AI that advances innovation responsibly—reducing its resource footprint while accelerating climate resilience and environmental protection. It upholds that technological progress must align with planetary stewardship, ensuring AI strengthens rather than undermines global sustainability.
Progress
The Progress Sutra envisages AI as an engine for inclusive growth—aligning its benefits with global development priorities and equitable access to opportunity. It emphasizes democratizing key AI resources and applying AI to accelerate socio-economic progress across sectors such as health, education, governance, and agriculture.
The Seven Chakras:
Building upon the three foundational Sutras, the deliberations at the AI Impact Summit will be organized around seven interconnected Chakras, areas of multilateral cooperation designed to channel collective energy toward holistic societal transformation. These Seven Chakras represent focused domains of international collaboration that translate the broader principles of People, Planet, and Progress into concrete areas of action:
Each Chakra represents a distinct yet interconnected sphere of multilateral engagement through which the transformative potential of AI can be harnessed to deliver tangible benefits aligned with the three Sutras. Together, they offer a comprehensive framework that enables countries, international organizations, and stakeholders to coordinate AI deployment strategies that enable the maximization of collective benefits while still addressing shared challenges.
As AI reshapes economies and societies, concerns around safety, transparency, and trust call for robust, technology-enabled safeguards that can match the sophistication and scale of modern AI systems. The Safe & Trusted AI Chakra seeks to close this governance gap by empowering all nations to participate meaningfully in AI oversight while supporting continued innovation and technological advancement.
AI is transforming the global employment landscape, creating new opportunities while disrupting traditional jobs and skills. Fragmented responses, absence of global AI literacy standards, and insufficient investment in workforce transition threaten to deepen the "AI divide." The Human Capital Chakra addresses these challenges by advancing equitable skilling, inclusive workforce transition, and broad sharing of AI-driven productivity gains.
AI is reshaping how science is done, from genomics and drug discovery to climate and materials research. The Science Chakra aims to promote AI in frontier science research and translate breakthroughs into inclusive, real-world impact through strengthening global scientific collaboration, establishing clear scientific norms and transparency standards for AI in research.
As AI infrastructure expands, its heavy environmental and energy footprint threatens climate resilience and inclusive growth across the world. The Resilience, Innovation & Efficiency Chakra promotes frugal, adaptable and sustainable AI, lightweight modular systems that work in low-resource contexts without compromising impact and performance.
AI technologies hold immense potential for advancing socio-economic outcomes – provided appropriate measures are taken to ensure their design, development, and deployment are inclusive. The Inclusion for Social Empowerment Chakra at the AI Impact Summit 2026 is to encourage design, development, and deployment of AI systems that actively account for and accommodate the diverse needs, identities, and experiences of all users.
The growing demands of AI development require vast infrastructure—compute and hardware, data infrastructure—that are concentrated in a few regions today, reinforcing global inequalities in innovation capacity. The Democratizing AI Resources Chakra seeks to democratize these foundational infrastructure resources through improving affordability, access and demand for all nations to foster inclusive technological progress.
AI holds significant potential to catalyse economic growth and advance inclusive societal progress. The Economic Growth and Social Good Chakra at the AI Impact Summit 2026 seeks to promote AI-driven pathways that not only strengthen service delivery and access in critical sectors but also generate measurable contributions to productivity, innovation, and growth, thereby advancing inclusive and equitable development.
The Impact of AI:
Achieving this vision requires global consensus on how AI is developed and applied in ways that serve the Planet, its People, and the Progress of all. This includes rethinking how data is managed, how AI models are designed and deployed, and how these technologies are integrated into our social and economic fabric. The India AI Summit aims to build consensus on all these issues so that AI’s Impact is realized equitably by all.
The AI Impact Summit represents more than a gathering of leaders; it embodies a commitment to amplify the positive impact of AI. Through the three foundational Sutras and seven focused Chakras, the global community will forge concrete pathways that ensure AI serves the Planet, empowers all People, and accelerates Progress for every nation.
Further Reads Please Visit The Seven Chakras:
- AI for Economic Development & Social Good
- Inclusion for Social Empowerment
- Safe and Trusted AI
- Science
- Resillience, Innovation & Efficiency Working Group
- Democratizing AI Resoureces
