Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated on Sunday (September 23) that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to transforming India through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) across key sectors like healthcare, education, and agriculture, with the aim of improving the lives of the nation’s citizens.
“The PM has been focussed on transforming India. It is Digital India vision. He pushed us to continue making in India, designing in India. We are proud to now make our Pixel phones manufactured in India. He is really thinking about how AI can transform India in a way that benefits the people of India. He challenged us to think about applications in healthcare, education, agriculture and he is also thinking about the infrastructure of India – be it data centres, power, energy and investing to make sure that India can transition. And we are proud to be partnering with India,” Pichai said after the meeting.
“We are robustly investing in AI in India and we look forward to doing more. We have set several programs and partnerships…He has always challenged all of us to do more, more for India. Now, he is asking us to do the same with AI. He has a clear vision, both in terms of the opportunity that AI will create but he wants to make sure ultimately AI is there to benefit the people of India and he has a clear vision that it should all be in the service of the people of India. He is challenging us to do more,” Pichai said.
