People at the Heart of India's AI Revolution

Prof TG Sitharam discusses how India's 'Enhancing Human Capital' initiative is transforming the nation's demographic strength into an AI-driven future

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Q Professor Sitharam, enhancement of human capital has captured public imagination as the 'Enhancing human capital of Al'. What is its central obiective?

Enhancing human capital is designed as a national convergence of thought before the Global AI Impact Summit 2026.

Its objective is simple yet transformative: to place human capital at the very centre of India's AI journey toward Viksit Bharat@2047.

We are no longer speaking of AI as a mere technology. We are treating it as a civilisational force that must be governed by ethics, empathy, and education. Enhancing human capital serves as the “first draft” of India's human capital declaration, a rehearsal in collective imagination. It brings together academia, industry, policymakers, and students under one vision: to turn India's demographic dividend into an AI dividend.

Q How does enhancing human capital connect with the 'Global AI Impact Summit 2026'?

Think of enhancing human capital as the preamble and the Summit as the constitution. Enhancing human capital allows India to test, debate, and refine its frameworks on education, research, policy, and ethics before taking them to the global stage.

Every session here, whether on education reform, talent pipelines, or Al governance, aligns with the 13 thematic tracks of the upcoming Summit. The conclusions drawn through Al-assisted synthesis during the Enhancing Human Capital will directly feed into the 2026 Declaration on Human Capital as the Central Pillar of Al's Global Future.

India is not just hosting the summit; it is shaping its grammar. Enhancing human capital gives India moral and intellectual authority to say, 'We practised before we preached.'