Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Nidhi Singh, Tejas Bharadwaj, Shruti Mittal, Adarsh Ranjan, Konark Bhandari, Charukeshi Bhatt
In February 2026, India hosted the AI Impact Summit, marking a significant pivot in global AI governance discourse from existential safety risks to tangible real-world applications for people, planet, and progress. As the first Global South nation to host such an event, India championed a "third way" in AI governance, prioritizing the needs of developing nations and last-mile diffusion. The summit's distinctive architecture, centered on impact across themes like human capital, inclusion, and social good, generated an ambitious declaration endorsed by over ninety-two countries. Key outcomes and discussions included the Global AI Impact Commons for cross-border learning, the strategic implications of India’s data center expansion on resource costs and compute sovereignty, and the imperative for rethinking linguistic inclusion in AI development beyond mere dataset representation. This collection of essays emphasizes equitable AI development principles, ensuring that diffusion and development outcomes are legitimate organizing principles for international cooperation, not secondary concerns to safety.
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