India can not keep out of world technological race, mentioned Jeet Adani.
Mumbai:
India can not keep out of world technological race and may construct capabilities that can hold it on the high whereas remaining vigilant in opposition to its misuse, mentioned Jeet Adani, Director, Adani Airport Holdings Ltd.
Talking at IIT Bombay’s Techfest 2024, Mr Adani, the 27-year previous youthful son of infrastructure magnate Gautam Adani, mentioned the way forward for know-how is each scary and thrilling.
“However be it scary or thrilling, we can not afford to disregard know-how and even go sluggish in our use of know-how — both as a nation or as its residents. India can not keep out of this international race,” he mentioned.
“Our era must construct capabilities to steer India into this new technological period if we wish to keep on the high of our recreation and realise our dream of Viksit Bharat — to develop into a USD 26-trillion economic system by 2047,” he mentioned.
Whereas know-how has helped mankind progress, it’s also being utilized to flawed causes — faux information, faux images, faux movies, faux cash, on-line scams, spoofing, phishing, and cyber-crimes.
“Because the scope and energy of know-how grows, we should be cautious to not let the dangerous use of know-how overshadow the helpful use of know-how,” he mentioned.
Expertise is simply pretty much as good because the profit it supplies.
“As we stand on the point of a brand new AI-empowered world, we should all ask ourselves how to make sure that the huge potential of know-how is harnessed for good. There isn’t a restrict to the place know-how can go or lead us, however it’s our era’s duty to information its journey,” he mentioned.
Whilst he hailed Google’s new quantum computing chip, Willow, as a revolutionary breakthrough with immense potential for optimistic influence in areas like drug discovery, renewable power and local weather change, he cautioned that such energy additionally comes with duty.
“What you do with that sort of energy is a alternative — whether or not to resolve the world’s issues or create new ones.” Urging college students to anchor their technological pursuits to societal objectives, he known as on the following era to drive progress responsibly, guaranteeing that know-how uplifts humanity and fosters inclusivity.
India, he famous, has already embraced know-how with goal by means of initiatives like UPI and Digital India, which have made monetary and digital companies accessible to hundreds of thousands.
India’s 180 billion cashless transactions a 12 months is, he identified, a far larger quantity than each superior economic system, whether or not it’s the US or the UK or Singapore or any of the developed international locations in Europe.
“India is in overdrive, and for good cause,” he mentioned. “Harnessing know-how is essential not only for financial development however for addressing long-standing challenges in healthcare, training, and governance.” On the Adani Group, simulation-based coaching is bettering office security at ports, At Adani-managed airports, improvements like DigiYatra, eGates and the ‘aviio’ app are enhancing the passenger expertise at airports and the conglomerate is popping arid desert of Kutch in Gujarat into the world’s largest clear power challenge by leveraging cutting-edge applied sciences to speed up building.
“At Khavda (Gujarat), we’re including 25 MW of unpolluted power each single day,” he mentioned.
“That is like constructing a challenge the scale of our earlier international milestone, the Kamuthi photo voltaic plant, each month. Khavda is super-massive, and it is pushed by the helpful use of know-how to make an actual distinction.” As India aspires to develop into a USD 26-trillion economic system by 2047, Mr Adani’s message underscored the vital function of purpose-driven know-how in shaping a future that advantages everybody.
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