The Karnataka government has decided to create two joint working groups with US artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, which will comprise officials from the state’s Centre for E-governance and the Home Department. The working groups will identify areas for using artificial intelligence in the two departments.
The Congress government in Karnataka is attempting to leverage AI for administration and employment generation in the state. Chief Minister D K Shivakumar also held talks with Google executives regarding a public-private AI university in the state.
“We don’t want the government alone to build it. We want to partner with industry. You should take the lead, and the government will stand beside you,” Shivakumar told an IT industry delegation.
The AI university would serve “as a centre for learning, innovation, collaboration and public digital access, with the vision of introducing AI education to rural students from Class 6,” the Karnataka CM had said.
After visiting Anthropic's Bengaluru office, Priyank Kharge, Minister of Home Affairs and Information Technology, said, “We also discussed expanding AI skilling across Karnataka through Claude certifications for students, professionals and enterprises, enabling startups and developers in our ecosystem to leverage Anthropic’s AI tools and exchanged ideas on their AI for Science and Claude for Education programmes.”
Kharge also told a CII Innovation summit this week that the state is attempting a “next phase of AI-led growth” based on stronger partnerships between government and industry.
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