The session examines how to democratise AI across India's social and economic landscape so that people, communities, industry, and government benefit safely. It promotes a platform approach beyond models, offering shared building blocks for data, compute, skills, evaluation, and trusted deployment. Discussion covers privacy-preserving data collaboration, India-ready multilingual benchmarks, cost-efficient optimisation, and responsible, auditable architectures with policy controls, centring human-AI collaboration for judgment, empathy, intent, and accountability across sectors and diverse populations.