PM Modi at G20 Summit: 6-Point Agenda, AI Safeguards and UNSC Reforms — Key Highlights

PM Modi at G20 Summit: On Saturday, world leaders were present in Johannesburg at the G20 Leaders’ Summit, presided over by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Prime minister Narendra Modi had arrived at Johannesburg a day before and conducted a number of bilateral talks among them an agreement with the Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese.

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The entire statements of the PM during the G20 summit are as follows:

PM Modi’s six-point agenda

• In the meetings, PM Modi showed the six big Indian offers of new initiatives of G20.
• In his first point, he requested an immediate action against drug trafficking regarding G20 Initiative on Countering the Drug-Terror Nexus.
• Secondly, he suggested the formation of a G20 Global Healthcare Response Team, a team of trained medical people in member countries who would be deployed in the event of a crisis.
• To aid in Africa development, Modi proposed a G20 Africa-Skills Multiplier Initiative as a way of developing a better and future-focused workforce.
• Some of the other proposals that Modi made were to have a Global Repository of Traditional Knowledge.
• And a G20 Open Satellite Data Partnership.
• A G20 Critical Minerals Circularity Initiative to enhance sustainability and value addition in the minerals industry.

Modi has urged the world to enter into a compact on AI

During the session entitled A Fair and Just Future for All - Critical Minerals; Decent Work; Artificial Intelligence, PM Modi challenged countries to come up with a global compact on AI in order to ensure that it does not misuse AI. A report published by news agency PTI stated that the AI technology should always be human-centric, transparent, responsible, and not abused in fields such as deepfakes, crime, and terrorism.

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Modi emphasized that AI systems that would have an impact on the population should be audited and responsible, and that the ultimate final decision-making should be in the hands of people. He also advocated towards an international model to talent mobility to be ready to the Capabilities of Tomorrow.

UNSC reform is not a choice, but an obligation: Modi at IBSA

PM Modi was speaking in the sidelines of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA)

Leaders Summit. According to a separate report by PTI, he stated that it was no longer optional but crucial to reform the UN Security Council and he urged IBSA grouping to send a strong message to the world on the need to have fairer global governance.

Institutionalisation of an IBSA-level NSA meet, establishment of an IBSA Digital Innovation Alliance, and establishment of an IBSA Fund on Climate-Resilient Agriculture are some of the measures proposed by Modi. He emphasized possibilities of collaboration within digital public infrastructure, green energy, natural farming, disaster resilience and traditional medicine.

Describing IBSA as a bridge between three continents and leading democracies, Modi invited leaders to the AI Impact Summit in India the next year, indicating that the group could assist in setting the norms of safe and reliable AI.

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