UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Prime Minister addresses the session on “Ensuring a Safe, Rapid and Efficient Rollout of Artificial Intelligence” at G7 Summit in Evian, France

Q1. With reference to the 52nd G7 Summit held at Évian-les-Bains in June 2026, consider the following countries invited by the host as outreach/partner countries: 1. Brazil 2. Egypt 3. South Africa 4. Kenya Which of the above is/are correctly identified?

  1. Brazil
  2. Egypt
  3. South Africa
  4. Kenya
  • A. 1 and 4 only
  • B. 2 and 3 only
  • C. 1, 2 and 4 only
  • D. 1, 2, 3 and 4

Q2. Within the Government of India, the coordination of India's participation in the outreach sessions of the G7 Summit (including the 2026 Évian Summit) is primarily handled by which one of the following?

  • A. Ministry of External Affairs
  • B. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  • C. NITI Aayog
  • D. Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance

Q3. The AI Action Summit held in February 2025, which preceded the India AI Impact Summit 2026, was co-chaired by the Heads of Government of which one of the following pairs of countries?

  • A. United Kingdom and France
  • B. France and India
  • C. United States of America and France
  • D. India and United Kingdom

Q4. With reference to India's M.A.N.A.V. vision for Artificial Intelligence articulated by the Prime Minister at the G7 Outreach Session in Evian (June 2026), which one of the following is the nodal Union Ministry implementing the IndiaAI Mission that operationalises this vision?

  • A. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  • B. Department of Science and Technology
  • C. Department of Telecommunications
  • D. NITI Aayog

Q5. In the context of the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 held at Bharat Mandapam, the guiding framework of the 'Three Sutras' refers to which one of the following triads?

  • A. People, Planet, Progress
  • B. Policy, Partnership, Prosperity
  • C. Privacy, Productivity, Public Good
  • D. Principles, Practice, Performance

Q6. In the context of India's national AI ecosystem, the initiative 'AIRAWAT' as conceptualised by NITI Aayog refers to which one of the following?

  • A. A sovereign large language model trained exclusively on Indian-language corpora
  • B. An AI-specific cloud computing infrastructure intended to serve as a common public-good compute facility for researchers, startups and academia
  • C. A national repository of curated, non-personal datasets and AI sandbox environments for innovators
  • D. A regulatory sandbox framework for testing high-risk AI applications before commercial deployment

Q7. Which one of the following is the nodal Union ministry/department responsible for operationalising the IndiaAI Mission, including its Compute, Datasets and Safe & Trusted AI pillars?

  • A. Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology
  • B. Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications
  • C. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  • D. NITI Aayog

Q8. In India, which one of the following is the nodal ministry/agency for coordinating India's participation in international AI governance initiatives such as the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) and the Hiroshima AI Process?

  • A. Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology
  • B. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  • C. NITI Aayog
  • D. Ministry of External Affairs

Q9. Which one of the following is the nodal ministry/agency of the Government of India that coordinates India's participation in the G20 and in G7 Outreach Sessions?

  • A. NITI Aayog
  • B. Ministry of External Affairs
  • C. Ministry of Finance
  • D. Prime Minister's Office (Cabinet Secretariat)

Q10. In the context of G7 Summits, the term 'Outreach Partner' most precisely refers to which one of the following?

  • A. A non-G7 country or international organisation invited by the G7 Presidency of the year to participate in select sessions of the Summit
  • B. A permanent observer country admitted by consensus of all G7 members for a renewable five-year term
  • C. Any country that contributes financially to the G7's annual development assistance fund
  • D. A country that has signed a formal association agreement with the G7 and attends all ministerial tracks