India to script its AI playbook as global tech elite converge today

WHEN THE FOURTH edition of the AI Impact Summit opens at Bharat Mandapam on Monday — its first outing in the Global South it will do so against a backdrop that is anything but placid.

- TEAM FE

In recent months, artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered multi-billion-dollar equity deals, piled fresh debt onto balance sheets, rattled global markets and sent IT services stocks into a tailspin after the launch of Anthropic's Claude Cowork.

BOARDROOMS ARE BUZZING, investors are jittery and employees are anxious about what agentic AI could mean for white-collar work.

And yet, inside the summit venue, the mood is expected to be one of ambition rather than alarm.

From OpenAI's Sam Altman to Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Google's Sundar Pichai,the world's most powerful AI architects will share the stage with policymakers and 20 heads of state, including French President Emmanuel Macron and his Brazilian counterpart Lula da Silva, to debate safety, regulation, sustainability and the future of work -- even as India rolls out its own AI playbook.

The Delhi summit builds on earlier editions in the UK, South Korea and France, but this time the stakes feel sharper.