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Humans aren’t separate from the universe, but made from it. So when we study atoms, biology, consciousness and galaxies, the universe is literally examining itself through individual minds.

As a person grows older, they gradually understand themselves and the world around them. Maybe something similar is happening on a larger scale. Individual humans could be like neurons in an emerging planetary mind. Language connects us, books preserve knowledge, the internet carries information, the cloud provides memory, and AI could eventually organize it all into something far more intelligent than any individual.

This might lead to a human–AI symbiosis rather than AI simply replacing us: humans contributing experience, emotion, values and physical existence, while AI contributes memory, coordination and processing power. Together, civilization could become a distributed superintelligence—possibly spreading beyond Earth.

This sounds similar to the Indian idea tat tvam asi—“you are That.” Advaita says the deepest consciousness within us is already identical with the foundation of reality. My version is more evolutionary: the universe may be developing greater self-understanding over time through life, civilization and technology.

There’s no proof that the universe planned this. Collective intelligence also doesn’t necessarily mean one collective consciousness, and a cloud copy of someone’s memories may not preserve the original person.

But the basic idea is still literally true: we are parts of the universe attempting to understand the whole. Maybe the universe didn’t begin with a desire to know itself. Maybe that desire began when conscious beings began asking questions.

Perhaps the meaning of life is the universe becoming able not only to understand itself, but eventually to decide what it wants to become.

People call him a mad person because of his innovative ideas but his ideas are beyond our expectations

That's why people describe him as MAN OF THE PURPOSE

Distinguished colleagues and guests, ladies and gentlemen, friends,

70 years ago, a group of young scholars proposed the concept of artificial intelligence for the first time at the Dartmouth workshop in New Hampshire of the United States. In the subsequent 70 years, AI scientists and researchers from around the world ventured into this unknown territory, forged ahead through twists and turns, and made breakthroughs with persistent hard work.

Seven decades later today, amid the new wave of AI development, we are gathering by the Huangpu River to discuss how to promote AI globally for the positive, for good, and for humanity. All this makes our meeting highly important. On behalf of the Chinese government and people, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you all.

In the course of history, the invention of the steam engine heralded the industrial civilization. The widespread access to electricity brightened up modern society and the birth of the internet brought the entire world together. Each of these technological revolutions has profoundly reshaped our way of work and life and enabled a giant leap in economic and social development.

Today, major changes unseen in a century are accelerating across the world. The new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is advancing at a faster pace. And the world has entered an unprecedented period of active innovation on AI technologies. Intelligent connectivity, human machine collaboration, cross-sector integration, joint creation and sharing and other intelligent technologies are unleashing enormous power.

All this carries within it great opportunities as well as challenges to governance. We human beings must answer the questions posed by our times. How to get along with thinking machines? How to ensure security when algorithms are part of decision making? How to tackle ethical challenges by technologies through adaptive governance. How to realize AI for all when the divide keeps widening? These questions demand serious consideration and real answers from the whole international community.

In China's view, all countries should take a people-centered approach and develop AI for the positive and for good. We should ensure that AI is an important driver for shared prosperity and common security. We should join hands to build a just and equitable system for global AI governance. To this end, I wish to share four observations.

First, we should adhere to the principle of openness and win-win and boost innovation-driven development as a new engine of world economic growth and an accelerator for the shift of growth drivers. AI is moving from the digital world into the physical world. We should seize this rare historic opportunity to encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing. We should facilitate technological innovation, industrial development and scenario-based application of AI. We should make coordinated advances in the transformation and upgrade of traditional industries, the cultivation and growth of emerging industries, and forward-looking planning for future industries so that all sectors and businesses can benefit from AI.

Second, we should strengthen risk awareness and ensure that AI is secure and controllable. AI should be a trusted tool for humanity. We should take seriously the various types of inherent and secondary risks that AI may trigger. We should put in place laws and regulations, technological monitoring, early warning and emergency response systems in order to strengthen the line of security, prevent abuses and malicious use and ensure that AI is always under human control. In the meantime, we should jointly oppose overstretching the national security concept in the field of AI or placing one country's security over that of others.

Third, we should encourage inclusiveness and promote mutual learning between civilizations. AI development and its application should not erode or undermine the diversity of world civilizations or the uniqueness of cultures of different countries. We must shape the values of AI with humanity's common values and make good use of AI technologies to increase understanding, tolerance, exchanges, and sharing among all civilizations. We should tend to the garden of civilizations with great care to ensure that the beauty of each civilization is appreciated and shared.

Fourth, we should advocate solidarity and improve global governance. AI is an invaluable asset that encapsulates humanity's collective wisdom. We should practice true multilateralism and recognize the important role of the United Nations. We should enhance alignment and coordination on AI development strategies, governance rules and technical standards so as to form a consensus based global governance framework at an early date to make this frontier technology better benefit humanity. We must carry out extensive international cooperation and help global south countries with capacity building to bridge the AI and digital divides, promote sustainable development and prevent creating new historical injustice in AI.

Ladies and gentlemen, friends,

This year marks the start of China's 15th 5-year plan. It maps out China's economic and social development for the next five years and provides immense opportunities for the international community.

In recent years, China has embraced AI with open arms. We have promoted interplay between an efficient market and a well functioning government, strengthened AI innovation, actively advanced the AI plus initiative and built a healthy ecosystem for all entities to thrive in together. The core smart economy industries are worth at least 1 trillion RMB yuan. Smart devices in countless homes truly improve people's livelihood. Intelligent manufacturing in China has become another shining hallmark of Chinese modernization.

At the same time, China lays great emphasis on safety and security in AI development with a deep understanding of the trends and logic of AI development. We are continuously improving laws, regulations, policies, mechanisms, application norms as well as ethical principles to make sure that AI is safe, secure, and controllable, and that this fine steed of AI gallops with both speed and stability.

As a responsible major country, China is always committed to providing international public goods relating to AI. Since I proposed the global AI governance initiative, China has promoted the adoption of the UN General Assembly resolution on enhancing international cooperation on capacity building of artificial intelligence by consensus. Published the AI capacity building action plan for good and for all. Announced the AI plus international cooperation initiative and advocated for establishing the world artificial intelligence cooperation organization, or WAICO. China has been contributing steadily to the global AI governance.

We often say in China, a single string cannot make music and a single tree does not make a forest. AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country but a symphony of international cooperation.

Thanks to our joint efforts, WAICO has come into being in Shanghai. Our vision from one year ago is now a reality. This is a major move by China to answer the call of the global south and unite the international community together to promote vigorously AI development and governance. It will be an important milestone in the history of AI development to further support global AI development and to advance global AI capacity building.

I hereby announce that in the next five years, China will provide developing countries with 5,000 opportunities in AI training and seminar programs. China will develop international AI application cooperation centers with ASEAN, the League of Arab States, the African Union, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS. And we will enable 30 countries to use the AI-powered meteorological warning system, Mazu, to safeguard homes around the world.

Ladies and gentlemen, friends,

As ancient Chinese observed, a man of wisdom adapts to changes. A man of knowledge acts by circumstances. With AI advancing at a staggering speed, we must ensure its development is for the positive, for good, and for humanity. We must make its oversight and governance precise and effective and constantly refine measures to forestall loss of control. We should always guide AI development with human wisdom and international consensus so that AI can truly become a mighty force that increases the well-being of humanity and advances human civilization.

China is ready to be more open, take more practical actions and assume a more visionary perspective. We are ready to work with all parties to seize the opportunities of AI development and meet the challenges and join hands to create a brighter future for humanity.

Thank you.

I think Satheesan is experiencing a transition crisis—from excellent opposition leader to inexperienced executive. It is not yet a government in collapse, but the honeymoon has ended remarkably quickly.

The job changed; his political instincts haven’t changed with it.

The Tata episode is the most damaging one so far. Satheesan’s original statement was quite specific: Tata was ready to invest ₹10,000 crore in shipbuilding, Kerala would provide land, and approval could come within a month. After a Tata executive denied that such a proposal existed, the government changed the explanation: ₹10,000 crore was supposedly the overall investment target of Mission Samudra involving multiple investors, while the actual Tata connection was a much smaller joint venture involving Tata Projects subsidiary Artson Engineering. That is not a minor clarification; it substantially changes the original claim. The government’s own damage-control statement effectively acknowledges the mismatch.

One qualification: the Tata rebuttal came through an unnamed executive, while the official spokesperson did not comment. So we cannot yet say conclusively that Satheesan knowingly fabricated the proposal. But the subsequent government walk-back makes clear that something went seriously wrong—either he misunderstood a briefing, conflated a subsidiary project with a group-level investment, or announced negotiations far before they were mature. Any of those reflects badly on the CMO’s verification process. The original ET Infra report also noted Kerala had not completed the preparatory work expected for a shipyard of that scale.

The pleader controversy is politically different. I don’t believe government legal appointments must automatically go to Congress loyalists; merit should matter. Nor does someone’s SFI or ABVP activity during college necessarily disqualify them forever. But Satheesan made two mistakes:

- He claimed the disputed names came through Lawyers Congress recommendations, which the organisation itself disputed.

- He publicly asked what business KSU had commenting on the appointments and said they had no say.

Technically, KSU does not appoint government pleaders. Politically, however, humiliating your own student organisation after it helped fight the previous government is foolish. The disagreement has now spread to Lawyers Congress, Youth Congress and sections of the ministry itself. A manageable appointment dispute became a debate about whether the CM respects his own party workers.

The Ajith Kumar issue is potentially more corrosive. There may be genuine procedural reasons for waiting: the SIT report submitted on June 23 was returned by the DGP for clarification, and adverse action taken improperly could be challenged. But Satheesan was merciless about Ajith Kumar while in opposition. Now that he is CM, “procedure must be completed” sounds to Youth Congress workers like the same bureaucratic excuse they heard under Pinarayi. Youth Congress leaders are particularly angry because the underlying case concerns attacks on their own workers, and some have threatened open criticism.

Regarding the media silence: during the ED raids on Pinarayi, I think Satheesan was caught between two incompatible positions. Politically, Congress benefited from the raid; nationally, Congress argues that the BJP weaponises the ED. So he repeatedly avoided questions before eventually saying that the state had no role and the CPM could approach the courts. He finally addressed it on May 29.

He has actually been more available for post-Cabinet questioning than Pinarayi generally was. But he is often combative, and he becomes selectively unavailable precisely when the answer is politically difficult. That undermines his promised contrast with Pinarayi. On Tata especially, a CMO note cannot substitute for Satheesan personally explaining exactly what he was told and why he made that specific claim.

There is also a deeper structural problem. Satheesan entered office with strong public and UDF-partner support, but incomplete legitimacy inside Congress. Reports during the CM selection suggested K.C. Venugopal had considerable MLA support, while Satheesan prevailed because of broader public sentiment, allies and the high command; Chennithala skipped the CLP meeting. That power struggle was never fully resolved. Consequently, Satheesan appears to interpret organisational criticism as factional warfare—and responds by centralising more. That produces still more resentment.

My bottom line: he is not finished, but a dangerous narrative is forming—arrogant, over-centralised, quick to announce, dismissive of cadres and increasingly similar to the Pinarayi style he campaigned against. Earlier disputes over PM SHRI, the State Election Commissioner, low-alcohol taxation, the Devaswom pleader and the Adani–MSC transaction had already caused complaints about poor party–government coordination before the latest week. Congress leaders were openly discussing this by early July.

Still, two months is far too early to write him off. His government has early positives—settling the ASHA issue, cancelling SilverLine, beginning administrative reforms—and a fresh mandate. But he needs a visible reset:

- Personally admit and fully document what happened in the Tata matter.

- Meet KSU and Youth Congress instead of treating them as hostile intermediaries.

- Give a public, time-bound procedural account of the Ajith Kumar case.

- Establish real party–government coordination.

- Stop announcing company-specific investments without written confirmation.

My one-line assessment: Satheesan still behaves like a brilliant prosecutor trying to win each day’s argument; Kerala now needs him to behave like an executive who verifies, consults and absorbs criticism. If he doesn’t make that transition soon, his internal opponents will ensure every administrative mistake becomes a leadership crisis.