Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella urged technology leaders to ensure artificial intelligence reaches farmers, businesses and communities across India, saying its promise will depend on how widely people can use it and contribute to its development. Addressing the Ideas4India forum in Seattle, Nadella said the benefits of a general-purpose technology should extend across countries and sectors, coupled with an emphasis on national sovereignty, control over knowledge and human oversight. “It will only happen when all of the world can both benefit from and contribute to this knowledge,” he said. The Consulate General of India convened the Indian American Tech CEOs Forum, bringing together more than 40 Indian-origin chief executives and chief technology officers. Nadella illustrated AI’s potential through a demonstration he had seen in Delhi, where an Indian developer had combined a GPT model with language services to help a rural farmer seek information about a government scheme through WhatsApp. The demonstration allowed the farmer to converse in a local language, and the system explained access to a subsidy and attempted to help complete the required paperwork. He urged the community to think about the wider ecosystem developing around advanced AI.