London, March 25 — India is rapidly emerging as a major player in artificial intelligence and offers significant opportunities for practical collaboration with the United Kingdom, India’s High Commissioner to the UK, Vikram Doraiswami, said on Tuesday at an AI-focused event hosted by the High Commission in London.
Doraiswami highlighted India’s expanding role in the global AI ecosystem, noting recent demonstrations of capability both in the UK and more recently in India. He said those showcases indicate considerable scope for combining the UK’s established AI strengths with India’s growing technical and commercial capacity.
He described how conversations around AI have shifted since the Bletchley Park AI Summit series began under former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in 2023. “We have moved beyond treating AI primarily as a security concern to asking how to use it to generate growth and inclusion,” Doraiswami said, emphasizing the need for AI to deliver benefits broadly across societies.
Doraiswami argued that AI must produce a “growth dividend” and a “people’s dividend,” promoting inclusion both within and between countries. He urged a deliberate focus on ensuring AI’s advantages are distributed horizontally and vertically across communities and geographies.
The High Commissioner also pointed to a longstanding tendency for India and the UK to pursue parallel technology efforts rather than coordinated projects. “Often we do things in India, you do things in the UK, and we look elsewhere for partners,” he said, calling for closer horizontal linkage between the two countries’ tech ecosystems. He framed such alignment as an “enormous opportunity” to scale impact and create shared value.
Doraiswami welcomed the participation of former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the event, saying the presence of UK political and industry figures could help shape concrete areas for cooperation. He expressed hope that discussions at the High Commission would lead to tangible joint initiatives.
Looking ahead, he identified London Tech Week in June as an important milestone for advancing UK-India collaboration in AI. “The upcoming Tech Week is a good benchmark — I want today’s event to be a scene-setter for practical cooperation that yields clear takeaways by June,” he said.
This report is based on a syndicated feed from ANI.
