India AI Impact Summit: Global Push to Curb Harmful AI Use, Says MeitY's Abhishek Singh

• IndiaAI Impact Summit aims for international consensus on preventing harmful AI uses like deepfakes and misinformation.
• Abhishek Singh, MeitY additional secretary, highlights broad alignment among democracies on restricting AI-driven harms.
• Protecting society from misuse of frontier AI models is foundational for any international governance framework from the summit.
• Consensus exists on issues like public order, communal harmony, child sexual abuse, and pornography related to AI use.
• The summit, from February 16-20 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, will negotiate shared principles for an international agreement.