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The AI-powered alerts systems saved implicit 5 lakh lives during the 2024 Kerala floods, said Dr. Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, MoS, Communications portion addressing the International AI Summit during the ongoing India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2025 astatine Yashobhoomi, New Delhi connected Thursday (October 9, 2025).
MoS said that India uses AI to empower, protect, and uplift its people.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) uses the Cell Broadcast System (CBS) to nonstop exigency alerts during disasters similar floods, cyclones, oregon earthquakes. These alerts are abbreviated messages sent to each mobile phones successful affected areas, adjacent without the internet.
The DoT works with agencies similar IMD and NDMA to nonstop alerts successful aggregate languages. Testing began successful 2023, with wider rollout successful 2025.
“India’s innovations are not astir exertion for technology’s sake, they are astir transforming lives,” helium said.
He besides said that integer technologies are reshaping mundane life. “UPI has made seamless payments universal, ONDC has opened e-commerce opportunities for tiny sellers,” helium added.
Dr. Pemmasani said that the Department of Telecommunications’ AI-driven Fraud Risk Indicator, has blocked 4.8 cardinal scams and prevented losses of ₹140 crore.
He besides talked astir the sedate hazard deepfake videos possess. “Deepfakes are undermining democracy,” helium told, referring to much than 50 fake videos that circulated during the 2024 elections, spreading misinformation and eroding spot successful nationalist discourse.
He highlighted the contented of algorithmic bias, saying, “AI hiring tools rejected 40% much women successful IT jobs, and lending algorithms denied agrarian applicants unfairly.” MoS talked astir the risks of automation and privateness violations, informing that by 2030, 15–30% of jobs successful IT and manufacturing could look displacement.
He pointed retired that facial designation systems person misidentified minorities with up to 80% mistake rates, portion successful healthcare, AI misdiagnosed 20% of tuberculosis cases successful Uttar Pradesh hospitals.
