Rahul Gandhi, who addressed a gathering on synthetic intelligence at a Silicon Valley incubator for startups on Wednesday, was described as a ‘living Buddha’ by the host – an Indian-American entrepreneur – information company PTI reported. Shan Sankaran, founding father of FixNix, a startup that gives a cloud-based platform to allow simple decision-making on governance, threat and compliance, mentioned that the Congress chief had a profound information about expertise.

Calling Gandhi’s understanding of expertise as ‘humane’, he defined that the previous get together president immediately associated it to the affect on the widespread man and employment. Sankaran added that the previous MP was at all times curious with out a ‘know-it-all’ angle. “He expressed his kind of limitation on different subjects, but he always shows his appetite for the technology,” he mentioned.

Other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs additionally interacted with the chief through the “AI and Human Development: A Chat with Rahul Gandhi’ occasion at Plug and Play.

Gandhi revealed that he tries to comply with his father, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, concerning the variation of expertise in numerous sectors together with banking. Sankaran, who was accorded the uncommon O1 visa by the US meant for people of extraordinary capabilities, mentioned that Gandhi additionally rooted for the regulation of expertise as a substitute of a blanket ban.

“Right now, what’s happening in India…TikTok, you don’t like it, Ban it. ..The US has not banned TikTok or drones. They regulate…made the CEO of TikTok come talk to all the members of the Congress,” Sankaran famous.

Referring to Gandhi’s claims of his telephone being tapped by the Pegasus spy ware, Sankaran mentioned the expertise is getting used to silence the press, judiciary, unbiased establishments and the opposition, together with Gandhi. At one level, Gandhi jokingly added, “Hello! Mr Modi” on his iPhone and informed the viewers he isn’t fearful about it.

Calling Gandhi ‘very empathetic’, Sankaran continued, “… He’s a living Buddha… and he follows Dhamma for that matter….he’s not behind fancy designations. He could have become prime minister (twice) when they had that majority. Not a single soul in the Congress would have objected in case he wanted to…He never chose to.”

Gandhi arrived in New York after visiting Washington and San Francisco and can deal with a group rally on the Javits Centre in Manhattan on Sunday.

(With inputs from PTI)