Context: India is hosting the India–AI Impact Summit 2026 – the first global AI summit in the Global South, with participation from 100+ countries, structured around Seven Chakras and guided by Three Sutras: People, Planet, Progress.
About Seven Chakras of the India–AI Impact Summit 2026:
What it is?
- The Seven Chakras are thematic Working Groups that translate the three Sutras into actionable policy, governance, and implementation pathways for responsible and inclusive AI at global scale.
Seven Chakras & Their Importance:
| Chakra | Why it matters? |
| Human Capital | Prevents large-scale job displacement shocks, enables smooth workforce transition, and positions India as a global AI talent hub supporting equitable and inclusive growth. |
| Inclusion for Social Empowerment | Ensures AI benefits reach women, farmers, informal workers, persons with disabilities, and linguistic minorities, embedding social justice and equity into AI systems. |
| Safe and Trusted AI | Builds public trust through transparency, accountability, and bias mitigation, ensuring innovation progresses without undermining democratic values or rights. |
| Science | Accelerates breakthroughs in health, climate, energy, and agriculture, while narrowing the Global North–South research divide through collaborative and open science. |
| Resilience, Innovation & Efficiency | Aligns AI expansion with environmental sustainability, promotes energy-efficient compute, and reduces the carbon footprint of large-scale AI infrastructure. |
| Democratising AI Resources | Addresses the global digital divide by expanding access to data, compute, and models, enabling startups, academia, and developing countries to innovate beyond Big Tech dominance. |
| AI for Economic Development & Social Good | Converts AI capability into measurable development outcomes in agriculture, healthcare, education, justice delivery, productivity, and inclusive economic growth. |
Relevance for UPSC Examination:
GS Paper II (Governance, International Relations)
- Global AI governance, digital multilateralism, South-led norm setting
- India’s leadership role in emerging technology diplomacy
GS Paper III (Science & Technology, Economy, Environment)
- Artificial Intelligence, digital public infrastructure (DPI)
- AI in agriculture, healthcare, climate resilience, productivity
GS Paper IV (Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude)
- Ethical AI, bias mitigation, accountability, human-centric technology
- Balancing innovation with responsibility (People–Planet–Progress)
