When India hosted the world at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi in February 2026, the headline was not profit or processing power.
It was possibility.
In conversation with Shradha Sharma, Founder and CEO of YourStory and The Bharat Project, Shri Jayant Chaudhary, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Minister of State for Education, made a clear-eyed case.
For a young, aspirational country, artificial intelligence is far less a disruption to fear than a door swinging open.
When Shradha asked him to choose between threat and opportunity, he did not hesitate.
