Vinod M Jain
Priyank Kharge,Minister for Home,Electronics,IT & BT and Centre for e-Governance (CeG),met Ms.
Irina Ghose, Managing Director, Anthropic India,to discuss Karnataka’s AI vision and opportunities for strategic collaboration.Dr.Avinash Menon Rajendran,IAS, Managing Director,KITS was also present at the meeting.
The discussions focused on building advanced and future-ready AI skillsets,forging partnerships for skilling and co-creation.
The two sides also deliberated on establishing Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and incubators to strengthen AI
research,innovation and entrepreneurship in the state.
A key focus of the interaction was leveraging existing datasets for public good and strengthening citizen services through AI.
The discussions explored Karnataka’s transition from e-governance to i-governance (intelligence-driven governance) by harnessing AI to build more responsive, efficient and citizen-centric systems.
“Karnataka’s AI vision is focused on building advanced capabilities,strengthening our innovation ecosystem and harnessing technology to improve governance and citizen services.
Our engagement with Anthropic is an opportunity to explore meaningful collaboration across skilling, research,startups and AI-led governance, while building sustainable and scalable models that can create long-term public value,”said Priyank Kharge.
The meeting also explored opportunities to design sustainable and scalable AI programmes for government and citizens,while strengthening collaboration between startups and Global Capability Centres (GCCs) through mentorship,co-creation and greater engagement with Karnataka’s existing DeepTech startup ecosystem.
