Co-founder and CEO of IndoGenius Nick Booker. (Photo: Screengrab of NDTV World Summit 2025 video) Show Quick Read Summary is AI Generated. Newsroom Reviewed

At the NDTV World Summit 2025 in New Delhi, researcher Nick Booker said that ancient India provided key intellectual foundations for today’s artificial intelligence and urged the world to turn to India again to guide AI’s future.

"The second most important super trend of the 21st century is the re-emergence of Indian civilisation," he said, adding, "We are now living in the first Indian decade of what will prove to be the Indian century."

Booker’s central claim is that India’s early advances in mathematics, language and astronomy seeded the modern, computational mindset.

"Let’s start with how did ancient India make artificial

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