Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: India on February 20 signed and joined the Pax Silica Declaration on the sidelines of the Global AI Impact Summit being held in the national capital.
US Ambassador to India Segio Gor, Jacob Helberg, United States Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth and Union Minister for Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw were present during the signing of the declaration. Gor earlier highlighted India’s s determination and the expanding scope of cooperation between the two countries.
Welcoming India to the Pax Silica initiative Gor said by signing this partnership the two nations had chosen to win. “We welcome India joining to co found the future tax silicon is about free society, whether free societies will control the commanding heights of the global economy.
“It’s about whether innovation happens in Bangalore and Silicon Valley or in surveillance states they use technology to monitor and control their people. We choose freedom, we choose partnership. We choose strength. And today, with India ‘s entry into Pax, we choose to win,” Gor said.
Jacob Helberg, United States Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment also hailed India’s joining the Pax Silica Declaration, noting that it underscores the importance of economic security translating into national security and stands in the face of coercion and blackmail undermining prosperity of nations.
