India signs US-led Pax Silica Declaration on last day of Global AI Impact Summit | India News

India formally signed and acceded to the Pax Silica Declaration on the sidelines of the Global AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Friday. Today is the last day of the Artificial Intelligence Impact Summit hosted by India.

US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor, US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth and Energy and Union Minister of Information Technologies Ashwini Vaishnaw attended the signing ceremony.

Earlier, Gor underlined India’s commitment and the growing scope of cooperation between the two countries. Inviting India to join the Pax Silica initiative, he said that by entering into this partnership, both countries have chosen the path of common progress and success.

“We welcome India’s participation to find out that the tax silicon of the future is about free society, whether free societies can control the commanding heights of the global economy. It is about whether innovation is in Bangalore and Silicon Valley or in surveillance states where they use technology to monitor and control their people. We choose freedom, we choose partnership. We choose power. And today, with India’s entry into the Pax silica, we choose to win,” Gor said.

Jacob Helberg, United States Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and Environment, also welcomed India’s accession to the Pax Silica Declaration, stating that it highlights the critical link between economic security and national security and represents a collective stance against oppression and intimidation that threatens the prosperity of nations.

His remarks came as India officially joined Pax Silica, the US-led initiative focusing on artificial intelligence and supply chain security, on the sidelines of the Global AI Impact Summit currently being held in the national capital.

Pax Silica is the U.S. State Department’s flagship initiative aimed at strengthening cooperation on artificial intelligence and supply chain security, fostering a renewed consensus on economic security among allies and trusted partners.

The Pax Silica Declaration recognizes artificial intelligence as a transformative driver of long-term growth and prosperity, while emphasizing that resilient and reliable supply chains are vital to shared economic security.

The partnership follows India’s participation in the Critical Minerals Ministerial Meeting held by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier this month, where External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar represented India.

The India AI Impact Summit 2026, the first global AI summit to be hosted in the Global South, brought together policymakers, industry leaders, academics and civil society representatives on responsible AI governance and promoting inclusive, equitable technological progress.