Thread by @d_jaishankar

Join us in 30 mins for an important discussion on the future of Artificial Intelligence cooperation between the U.S. and India.

Hosted by @CEIPTechProgram & @orfonline and featuring Eric Schmidt, Nivruti Rai, K VijayRaghavan, and Bob Work.

Details: carnegieendowment.org/2020/10/23/all…

Chairman NSCAI and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt: "AI...enables everything else. Progress in science will be fundamentally accelerated...The profound effect on health is yet to be seen...This is the time to get AI right...The China competition becomes very important."

Schmidt: China has a concerted plan to lead in AI. Russia is using AI for military purposes. America alone is not going to make it. The values that Chinese infrastructure are built on are different. The combination of the people and the energy make India the critical partner.

Nivruti Rai of Intel: India has unimaginable variety of data on a national scale. To succeed in AI we need IP, policy support, people. The use of AI for search engines and targeted advertising just scratch the surface.

Dr. K. VijayRaghavan: On AI, India has quality but also major demands. 3 views on AI: utopian, dystopian, and authoritarian. Democracies must try to use AI to improve governance without compromising privacy. China is a very important issue. Opportunity for India to partner the US

Bob Work: The key advantage the U.S. has is partners, coalitions, and alliances. Central to the United States' AI strategy. US has to improve its talent pool and emphasize democratic values. India is a logical partner, founding member of GPAI, part of ISO, D-10, etc.

Andrew Wyckoff of OECD: GPAI has not yet taken off, but has great potential.

Nivruti Rai: AI systems are not immune to bias, bugs, malware, or manipulation. The weaponization of AI is a problem. Per Gartner study, US has 16% of AI capability, China 9%, India 8%.

Dr. VijayRaghavan: Indian priorities for AI will include agriculture and health, with education cutting across everything.

Bob Work: Synthetic biology and AI will have the biggest impacts on life and war. Similar moral and ethical issues that democratic societies have to debate.

VijayRaghavan: AI is allowing hospitals to use radiology information to give quality expert opinions to small towns in the developing world. New telemedicine guidelines and other policy changes will create opportunities for high-end international commercial collaboration.

A few resources for people who may be interested in the challenges and opportunities of India-U.S. AI cooperation.

First, here is the U.S. National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI) interim report from October 2020, which advocates, among other things, international partnership (including with India) after p. 185:

drive.google.com/file/d/1jg9YlN…

Second, NITI Aayog's approach paper from earlier this year on establishing an AI-specific cloud computing infrastructure in India: niti.gov.in/sites/default/…

Third, another NITI Aayog discussion document on data empowerment and protection architecture:
niti.gov.in/sites/default/…

Fourth, on the International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) - a ‘distributed CERN for digital health’: i-dair.org

Fifth, an example of private sector collaboration by Intel, the government of Telangana, and IIT Hyderabad is hosting INAI to help startups using open data, keeping in mind security and privacy. @rnivruti

inai.ai

Sixth, a plug for the excellent @orfonline @AtlanticCouncil discussion we held recently on the sidelines of #cyfy2020, summarized here:

https://twitter.com/orfonline/status/1316273720030240771?s=20