Artificial intelligence will help improve productivity: PM Modi at Mumbai University

The rise of artificial intelligence will help improve productivity and lead to equitable development, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the University of Mumbai on Sunday. Modi, who inaugurated the Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence on the Kalina campus of the university, downplayed fears of humans losing jobs to robots. "With each wave of new technology, new opportunities arise. It opens an entirely new paradigm of opportunities. New opportunities have always outnumbered old ones," said Modi. "This optimism spells from my firm faith in the ancient Indian thinking that blended science and spirituality and found harmony between the two for the greater good of mankind," he said.