Union IT Minister Finds Out Elon Musk’s Son Shares Same Name as His at UK AI Summit

During his attendance at the AI Safety Summit in the UK as India’s representative, Union IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar had an unexpected encounter with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The surprises continued as the IT minister engaged in a conversation with the billionaire and discovered that Musk’s son shares the same last name as him, Chandrasekhar, as his middle name. The Union minister took to X (formerly Twitter) to share this peculiar coincidence online.

The Minister of State for Entrepreneurship, Skill Development, Electronics and Technology posted on Musk’s social media platform X that the tech billionaire shared that his son with tech venture capitalist Shivon Zilis has the middle name “Chandrasekhar” according to Nobel laureate Professor Subrahmanyan. Chandrasekhar.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Elon Musk’s son share the same name

Chandrasekhar said on X while tweeting a photo with Musk: “Look who I ran into at the #AISafetySummit in Bletchley Park, UK. @elonmusk shared that his son with @shivoni has the middle name ‘Chandrasekhar’ – named after 1983 Nobel physicist Prof S Chandrasekhar”.

The Indian astrophysicist won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical studies of the physical processes important to the structure and evolution of stars.

“Haha, yes, that’s true. We call him Sekhar for short, but the name was chosen to honor the children’s legacy and the amazing Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,” replied Zilis to Chandrasekhar’s post.

Union minister Chandrasekhar has joined delegates from around the world at an AI security meeting hosted by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire – the home of modern computing, where the famous British mathematician Alan Turing’s team broke the Enigma code. World War II.

He has held several meetings on the sidelines of the summit, including with Britain’s Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Jonathan Camrose and Australia’s Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic.

“We discussed how the decision about the future of technology should not be left to the big tech houses and that governments should continue to work together and agree on a framework of dos and don’ts to ensure the safety and trust of internet users.” the minister told of his meeting with Camrose.

“We discussed how the Indian diaspora significantly adds to Australia’s talent pool and highlighted the potential of the India-Australia partnership to shape the future of technology,” he said, referring to his meeting with Husic.

On Wednesday, the first day of the two-day summit, Chandrasekhar addressed the opening plenary to outline India’s vision of innovative technology as a driver of economic growth.

“For us, everything digital, the digital economy, the innovation ecosystem represents real bread, real goals and real goals. For us, artificial intelligence is the kinetic enabler of the already accelerating, already expanding digital economy, as we see it. economy, innovation, growth and governance,” said the minister and former technology investor.

On Thursday, Sunak presided over the talks as he hailed the Bletchley Declaration, signed on the first day of the two-day meeting, as a “landmark agreement” between 28 countries, including India.

“The first UK-led Global AI Security Summit has already seen major AI powers sign the landmark Bletchley Declaration, agreeing a shared responsibility to address the risks and work urgently together on the security and research of limited AI. The UK has led the way in this global AI security debate , but no country can handle the risks alone,” he said.