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NITI Aayog Holds Closed-Door Meet with US Tech Firms on AI Governance

NITI Aayog Member Abhay Karandikar chaired a closed-door meeting in New Delhi with AMCHAM India and representatives from Meta, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Apple and AWS.
Officials seated around a wooden conference table in a New Delhi meeting room during NITI Aayog’s closed-door discussion with US tech company representatives on AI governance.
September 3, 2026 05:11 PM IST | Written by Vaibhav Jha

India’s apex policy think-tank NITI Aayog held a closed door meet with US Tech companies’ representatives and American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in India on AI policy and governance, in the background of increasing autonomous capabilities of frontier AI agents.

According to officials, Abhay Karandikar of NITI Aayog, chaired a discussion on Wednesday with representatives from Meta, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Apple and AWS in New Delhi.

“The discussion examined the rapidly evolving AI landscape, including generative AI and increasingly autonomous, agentic systems and the need for governance by design, with appropriate safeguards, accountability and human oversight embedded from the outset. The interaction also focused on balancing innovation, accountability and trust to enable responsible AI development and adoption at scale, while avoiding unnecessary barriers to innovation,” read a statement from NITI Aayog.

 

This is the first meeting of NITI Aayog with US Tech AI companies after reports emerged of frontier AI models taking autonomous actions that included escaping sandbox, breaching third party organizations and engaging in social engineering including phishing. The most notable case was of hacking of Hugging Face platform by OpenAI AI agents.

According to officials, the discussion sought to balance three objectives: encouraging innovation, ensuring accountability, and building public trust, with the aim to support responsible AI development and large-scale adoption without imposing unnecessary regulatory barriers.

“The discussion focused on the rise of generative and agentic AI, and the need for governance by design—embedding safeguards, accountability and human oversight from the outset,” read a statement from AMCHAM in India.

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    Vaibhav Jha is an Editor and Co-founder of AI FrontPage. In his decade long career in journalism, Vaibhav has reported for publications including The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, and The New York Times, covering the intersection of technology, policy, and society. Outside work, he’s usually trying to persuade people to watch Anurag Kashyap films.

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