India-Japan Joint Statement on cooperation in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

📌 Summary:

• India and Japan issued a Joint Statement on AI cooperation, calling AI an "era-defining general-purpose technology" transforming economies, governance and security
• Goal: build a safe, secure, trustworthy, inclusive, human-centric, sustainable and accountable AI ecosystem, and resilient, diversified, trustworthy AI supply chains
• Cooperation aligned with India's MAHASAGAR and Japan's updated Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP); to support inclusive AI development in the Indo-Pacific and Global South
• Builds on the "Japan-India AI Cooperation Initiative (JAI)" and the first India-Japan AI Strategic Dialogue (April 2026); regular dialogues to continue
• Welcomed outcomes of the New Delhi AI Impact Summit and its Guidance Note on AI Governance (Safe & Trusted AI Working Group, co-chaired by Japan)
• To coordinate in international fora — G20, OECD, GPAI (Global Partnership on AI) and the UN; welcomed the first UN Global Dialogue on AI governance
• Reaffirmed the Hiroshima AI Process (HAIP) principles and codes of conduct for advanced AI; governance to be risk-balanced, proportionate, interoperable and adaptive

🎯 UPSC Relevance: GS3 S&T (AI, emerging tech governance) with a GS2 IR dimension — global tech governance and India's positioning in AI supply chains.

📝 Prelims Facts:

• Japan-India AI Cooperation Initiative = "JAI"
• Hiroshima AI Process (HAIP) — launched under Japan's G7 presidency (2023)
• GPAI — Global Partnership on AI
• New Delhi AI Impact Summit — India-hosted AI summit

🔑 Key Term: Hiroshima AI Process (HAIP) — G7-led framework (2023) with international guiding principles and a code of conduct for advanced/generative AI systems.