Assured that access to AI tech once provided will not be cut-off: senior Indian official

The United States has assured India that access to artificial intelligence technologies will not be interrupted once it is provided, a senior bureaucrat said on Thursday, June 25, 2026, adding that New Delhi believes that the sector still needs innovation and that it is not time to regulate it yet.

Americans are concerned about the potential use of artificial intelligence models such as Anthropic and Mythos and their impact, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Secretary S. Krishnan said while interacting with the media on the sidelines of the two-day Pax Silica Summit here.

Mr. Krishnan and Additional Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs K. Nagraj Naidu on Wednesday met US Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg, who is running the Pax Silica initiative to provide alternative supply chains for critical minerals and rare earths, a sector dominated by China.

The Pax Silica initiative aims to strengthen the security of supply chains in key technology sectors.

“America’s concern about AI models is basically how these models could potentially be used and what their potential impact might be. They were looking internally at a review mechanism for some of these before they were released,” Mr. Krishnan said.

“But I think there was an understanding, and that was certainly something they talked about, that once access to technology was established, it wasn’t going to be disrupted. I think that was achieved,” Mr. Krishnan said.

“We must ensure that there are certain areas where the global economy today needs reliable and durable supply sources,” he said.

“If you become overly dependent, and I think geopolitics and also things like the COVID pandemic have taught us that, you don’t become overly dependent on a single source of supply,” he said.

“So you need at least three or four reliable and reliable sources of supply for various technologies,” Mr. Krishnan said.

On privacy and regulation, Mr Krishnan said: “Our stance on regulation in this area is that now is still a time for innovation. It is not yet time to actually look at regulation in the sector, which is the position that India has.”

Mr. Krishnan said, “We have also stated, and my Minister has also stated, that if there is a need for regulation and the time has come, we will not hesitate.”

Earlier on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, India and the US discussed ways to cooperate on creating diversified and reliable supply chains when Mr. Krishnan met Mr. Helberg.

“They discussed ways to collaborate on creating diversified and reliable supply chains, especially in semiconductor manufacturing, adoption of artificial intelligence and securing access to critical minerals,” the Indian Embassy said in a post on X.

This second Pax Silica Summit will see the participation of member states that have signed up to the framework exploring alternative ways to secure access to critical minerals, a sector currently dominated by China.

At its core are semiconductors and critical minerals, resources that are increasingly central to economic competitiveness and national security.

The first Pax Silica Summit was held last December. India joined the initiative on the sidelines of the AI ​​Impact Summit in New Delhi in February.

The initiative is not a trade agreement, officials said, but rather an economic and military security agreement that will increasingly depend on who controls the AI ​​value chain and how.