​Safe AI: Building Shared Trust and Accountability Infrastructure

​📅 Session Details

​Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:25 PM IST
Venue: Chanakya Auditorium, Sushma Swaraj Bhawan

​🎯 What This Session Is About

​Who decides when AI is safe enough to deploy at population scale?

​Most safety frameworks assume centralized control. India's AI adoption involves thousands of institutions making deployment decisions across agriculture, health, education, and governance. Each faces different risk tolerances, operational contexts, and stakeholder concerns.

​This session examines how to build trust infrastructure that scales: shared evaluation protocols, transparent accountability mechanisms, and institutional safeguards that help adopters assess and manage AI risks without requiring them to become safety experts themselves.

​We'll explore how safety becomes a public good, not a proprietary advantage, and what institutional arrangements enable both rapid adoption and responsible deployment when AI serves hundreds of millions across diverse contexts.

​⭐️ Speakers

​Moderator: Deepika Mogilishetty, Chief of Policy, EkStep Foundation

​Speakers:

• ​Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK), Professor, IIIT-Hyderabad

• ​Urvashi Aneja, CEO, Digital Futures Lab

• ​Nitarshan Rajkumar, International Policy, Anthropic

• ​Akash Kapur, Professor, Princeton University

• ​Urvashi Aneja, CEO, Digital Futures Lab

• ​Richa Singh, Professor, IIT-Jodhpur

​This session is part of the AI Impact Summit 2026, exploring how artificial intelligence can drive meaningful social change across sectors.