Interview: AI will not only solve challenges for India but also for the world, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Artificial intelligence will not only help solve India’s unique structural challenges and help increase productivity and societal benefits, but those solutions for India may turn out to be relevant for the rest of the world as well, Satya Nadella told ET during his annual visit to the country last week. In an interview, the 56-year-old chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation called AI the new factor of productivity and said it will aid India’s goal of being a $5-trillion economy. Edited excerpts:

Congratulations on completing ten years at Microsoft. You’re being talked about as the ‘GOAT’ of tech CEOs, the greatest of all time. Your success is partly due to the fact that you placed the right things at the heart of Microsoft 10 years ago, in terms of mobile, cloud, and so on. So, what is going to be Microsoft’s paradigm ten years from now?