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India and the US are working together to bridge the digital divide between the West and the Global South, Lisa Curtis, a former senior White House official, said.
She was participating in a panel discussion on “Strategic Synergies: India-US Technology Cooperation” as part of the Motwani Jadeja US-India Dialogue Series.
Lisa Curtis, who is a former officer from Trump Administration, underlined that India and the US were helping shape the framework for the “responsible and safe” use of Artificial Intelligence to benefit their societies.
The two countries are cooperating to advance the use of AI in cyber defence and in protecting critical infrastructure. “We’re working together to bridge the digital divide between the West and the global South,” said Curtis, who served as the South Asia point person for former president Donald Trump.
Speaking at an event in US think tank Hudson Institute, she said the US-India technology cooperation in a potential future Trump administration could continue “The momentum we saw a flourishing of the US-India relationship during the previous Trump administration. We saw very good ties between the leadership between Prime Minister Modi and President Trump,” she recalled.
Vikram Singh from the United States-India Strategic Partnership Forum said the US and India have very deep ties at an official level, and the relationship has been improving since the low point of the post-Indian nuclear test in the late 90s.
