Microsoft plans to convert rural India into an AI hub by skilling 2 million people.

Microsoft plans to convert rural India into an AI hub by skilling 2 million people.

CEO Satya Nadella announced on Wednesday that Microsoft will offer AI-skilling opportunities to 2 million people in India by 2025. He also stressed the importance of collaboration between the US and India on AI standards and laws.

The corporation released a statement stating that the skilling would enable inclusive socio-economic advancement by teaching people in rural, tier-2, and tier-3 cities.

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“I hope consensus emerges and that is what helps, in some sense, (with) the diffusion of this technology,” Nadella stated about international efforts to develop guidelines and control artificial intelligence during a conference in Mumbai.

According to Nadella, he believed that “equal distribution of economic growth” will result from the spread of AI worldwide.

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