Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan

Author, Former Director

Tata Sons

Biography

Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan studied physics at Kolkata University, engineering at IIT Kharagpur and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He has been a professional manager from 1967. He has served as Chairman of Unilever Arabia, as MD of Brooke Bond Lipton and Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever, as director of Tata Sons and several Tata companies. He serves as an independent director of Press Trust of India (PTI). R. Gopalakrishnan (Gopal to his friends) spends his time in Writing, Advising, Speaking and Teaching.

Topic Name & Synopsis

Plenary Session: A Tip of an Iceberg: What to Expect from the AI-driven Digital Future?

Artificial Intelligence enters our lives as an iceberg enters the ocean—we can see only the tip of it, but the real size of its impact on the planet is unknown. The global community is now trying to apply AI everywhere: from services used by people every morning and various tech solutions made for companies across industries to corporate and national projects that lead to the advancement of the whole world.

However, we still cannot assess the darker side of a widespread adoption of AI. Cybercriminals actively turn it into their weapon, generative AI amplifies the problem of disinformation, and some experts predict the huge effects that AI may have on social and economic stability.

How to ensure a safe evolution of artificial intelligence and global resilience to emerging threats? Where is the balance of relying on AI and what can we do to maintain it?