Overview
- Gautam Adani framed artificial intelligence as the “world’s new teacher,” warning of three risks to Indic knowledge: invisibility without digitisation, cultural compression by large models, and alien judgement from non-Indic norms.
- He proposed a Bharat Knowledge Graph, an India-centric AI corpus, scholar-in-the-loop systems, Indology AI chairs across universities, and training that links Sanskrit with computational skills.
- Adani announced a founding contribution of Rs 100 crore to kick-start the knowledge graph and to fund scholars and technologists working on these efforts.
- The three-day Global Indology Conclave is being hosted with the Education Ministry’s Indian Knowledge Systems initiative at Adani Corporate House in Ahmedabad, with the Jyotir Math Shankaracharya lauding the effort.
- Organisers detailed a five-year programme to support 14 PhD scholars across leading institutions, spanning areas such as Paninian grammar, computational linguistics, indigenous healthcare frameworks, and traditional engineering.