India's role in the future of AI
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
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From the BBC World Service: India is hosting an AI summit as part of the country's efforts to showcase itself as a major player in the artificial intelligence space and a leader in the Global South. It's aiming to be an emerging market where AI is not just going to be consumed, but where it's going to be created, built, and exported. Plus, restaurant owners are starting to take action on what they call "entitled" behavior by food influencers.
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| 0:00.0 | India hosts a key AI summit without Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Nick Kureshi. The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has pulled out of a keynote address to a major AI summit in India after growing scrutiny over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:21.3 | Mr Gates has always denied any wrongdoing. |
| 0:24.1 | But his absence has not stopped the conference from debating the future of artificial intelligence in India and the global south. |
| 0:31.5 | The BBC's Arunaday Mukherjee is at the summit for us. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi, Arunaday. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi, Nick. |
| 0:35.8 | Now, this conference is part of India's efforts to showcase the |
| 0:38.3 | country as a major player in the artificial intelligence space. Is that proving successful so far? |
| 0:45.0 | The entire intention of the country was to position itself as a leader of sorts in the global |
| 0:50.5 | south, that this is the country to look at in terms of investment. It's the world's |
| 0:54.2 | most populous country with the 1.4 billion people, the world's largest youth population, |
| 0:59.5 | you know, over 800 million smartphone users. So the message was that this is the market to |
| 1:04.7 | look at. This is the emerging market where AI is not just going to be consumed, but it's going |
| 1:10.3 | to be created, built, and even exported. |
| 1:13.2 | That's why the focus has been on building infrastructure, strengthening existing infrastructure. |
| 1:18.8 | You know, the kind of investments that we've heard about, for instance, from billionaire industrialist, |
| 1:22.6 | Gotham Adani, talking about $100 billion in India for infrastructure investment. |
| 1:33.3 | You know, you've got the Indian government talking about $200 billion coming in over the next two years for infrastructure investment. So I think they've been trying to position itself as the country which is going to play a crucial role |
| 1:40.3 | in sending up that message amidst concerns at the moment globally that given the adoption of AI has been uneven across the world, |
| 1:48.6 | this is one area which could offer a solution to make it even and ensure that developing nations, |
| 1:55.4 | developing economies don't get left behind in the global AI race. |
| 1:59.1 | And I think that's the message which seems to have |
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