New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- In November 2023, a few governments and technologists gathered at Bletchley Park to discuss artificial intelligence (AI), seeking to come to terms with the technology they were developing. The mood was sombre and fear was the dominant register. This was the first of a series of AI Summits, the most recent of which was held in New Delhi last week.

Unlike Bletchley Park, Bharat Mandapam was not only much larger and more crowded, the mood was also markedly more upbeat. With over 500,000 visitors from 118 countries and over 3,250 speakers, the AI Impact Summit held in New Delhi was far and away the largest AI summit to date. But what distinguished this conference was not its size or spectacle, but a growing recognition ...