NEW DELHI, Feb 20: India on Friday officially signed and joined the Pax Silica Declaration on the sidelines of the Global AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. Today is the last day of AI Impact Summit, hosted by India.
The signing ceremony was attended by US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor, US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Union Minister for Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw.
Earlier, Gor underscored India's resolve and the growing scope of cooperation between the two countries. Welcoming India to the Pax Silica initiative, he said that by entering into this partnership, both nations had chosen a path of shared progress and success.
"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 silica, 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 accession to the Pax Silica Declaration, stating that it highlights the critical link between economic security and national security, and represents a collective stand against coercion and intimidation that threaten the prosperity of nations.
His remarks come as India formally joins Pax Silica, the US-led initiative focused on artificial intelligence and supply chain security on the sidelines of the Global AI Impact Summit currently being held in the national capital.
Meanwhile, in a big takeaway from the AI Summit 2026, at least 75 countries are signing the 'Delhi Declaration' - reportedly a non-binding pledge or declaration on goals for AI development.
The government on Thursday announced New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments, with Vaishnaw describing them as a significant outcome of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 and a shared voluntary framework adopted by leading global and Indian AI companies.
Calling it a "significant outcome" of the summit, Vaishnaw said on Thursday, "Today, leading frontier AI companies along with our own AI companies have come together to make a set of voluntary commitments - a shared commitment for inclusive and shared AI."
India hosted the grand artificial intelligence summit (India AI Impact Summit 2026) this week - from February 16 to February 21 - at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, bringing under a roof heads of state, senior officials and tech executives for the gathering meant to highlight the growing global importance of the technology. "Z NEWS, HT
