The second fireside chat shifted focus to the role of governments and public institutions in both catalysing funding and stewarding AI developments in a way that preserves diversity and culture. Moderated by Martin Tisné – Founder and Chair of the board, Current AI, the panel featured Shri. Abhishek Singh – Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology; CEO, India AI Mission, and Anne Bouverot – France’ Special Envoy for AI – Government of France. The conversation engaged with some important questions, such as what real reciprocity should look like when big technology companies benefit from cultural data, and explored how we might move towards data models that co create value with communities rather than extract from them. The discussion also surfaced the importance of policy guardrails and cross border collaboration in shaping AI ecosystems that reflect pluralism and scale.

As Martin Tisné succinctly put it, “We cannot allow AI to become a monoculture.”