Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that Government has firm belief that it can use Artificial Intelligence as the power of twenty-first-century technology to eradicate poverty and diseases. He said by doing so the government can bring prosperity to poor and under-privileged sections. Mr Modi said this after inaugurating the Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Mumbai .
The Prime Minister said there is no doubt that productivity will increase by using Artificial Intelligence, Bots and Robots, however, there are also rising fears of human redundancy because there is a competition between the mind and the machine. Mr Modi said that the progress of Artificial Intelligence depends on and will be driven by human intentions.
He also emphasised that the march of technology cannot be at the expense of further increasing the difference between societies. Mr Modi said that evolution of technology has to be rooted in the ethics of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas.