US Edition‘World leaders amazed by AI preserving ancient knowledge’: PM Modi on AI Impact Summit
- On February 22, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his Mann ki Baat radio programme from New Delhi to warn citizens about rising digital frauds.
- Modi pointed to growing 'digital arrest' scams and said banks' repeated KYC update messages cause confusion about why the process repeats.
- Referring to the recently concluded India AI Impact Summit, Modi said two products impressed leaders, including AI helping treat animals at the Amul booth and the Bharat-VISTAAR multilingual AI platform supporting farmers and livestock/dairy operations.
- Modi emphasized that KYC is only for the security of your own money and urged people to follow proper banking procedures, saying 'My request to you is: please don't get annoyed.'
- The summit also attracted global leaders and India AI Impact Summit attendees, while Modi paid tribute to J Jayalalithaa, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, and noted the Mamangam tradition revived after nearly 250 years.
36 Articles
36 Articles
AI will not save us
It’s been a big week for AI boosters. There is, of course, a very good chance that this opening sentence would be true if you’d read it at any point in the past few years, since “compiling a weekly list of AI news items” is truly, to use journalistic parlance, a piece of piss. The AI Impact Summit landed in New Delhi, as Narendra Modhi welcomed thousands of soberly-suited futurists like George Osborne, who told us the UK would be “left behind if…
"India will keep making strides": PM Modi highlights AI Impact Summit, farmers' progress and T20 World Cup in Mann Ki Baat
In a series of X posts, PM Modi said, "The AI Impact Summit showcased the prowess of 1.4 billion Indians. India will keep making strides in this world in the times to come."
‘World leaders amazed by AI preserving ancient knowledge’: PM Modi on AI Impact Summit
In his 131st Mann Ki Baat address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted AI’s role in dairy farming and preserving ancient manuscripts, while urging citizens to stay alert against digital fraud, financial scams and so-called digital arrest threats.
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 54% of the sources lean Right
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
