On the latest India AI summit, Raul instructed UN Information what drives his ardour for the know-how, and why we have to totally embrace it.
Largely self-taught, Raul constructed his first robotic on the age of 12 and has developed over 10 AI instruments. He has suggested the Kerala and Dubai governments on tips on how to combine AI into public providers and is the founding father of AI Realm Applied sciences.
Raul’s achievements have led to talking engagements at main know-how corporations, and invites to worldwide conferences, similar to final week’s 2026 India AI Summit in New Delhi, the place he was launched to Amandeep Gill, the UN Particular Envoy for Digital and Rising Applied sciences, in addition to UN Secretary-Basic António Guterres.
After a UN-organised panel dialogue on AI and youngsters’s security, at which he delivered the opening deal with, Raul sat down with Anshu Sharma from UN Information to speak about his business trip, hopes for the long run and the way younger folks ought to finest have interaction with AI.
This interview has been edited for readability and size
UN Information: Why did you get desirous about know-how?
Raul John Aju: I found know-how by means of video modifying. When my father obtained a job at Adobe I obtained free entry to all of the premium instruments and I used to be in a position to study AI. After that I created my robotic [known as MeBot, built for a school science project].
“AI Child of India,” Raul John Aju, with United Nations Beneath-Secretary-Basic and Particular Envoy for Digital and Rising Applied sciences, Amandeep Singh Gill, after an ODET facet session on the AI Influence Summit 2026 in India.
UN Information: How did you come to start out your personal firm?
Raul John Aju: The primary purpose was I wished all the instruments that I had constructed to be below one model title. I additionally wished to create a cost system to make folks’s lives simpler, in order that they’ll simply use a QR code to pay for issues, in the event that they don’t have a credit score or debit card.
UN Information: Inform me about a few of your AI improvements.
Raul John Aju: One among them is the Rescue AI software. The thought is that, in the event you’re concerned in an emergency scenario, the software will let you know what to do, and which legal guidelines apply. It’s going to join you with a lawyer and in addition assist the lawyer to craft a method to win the case, by taking a look at 1000’s of comparable circumstances.
One other venture is ThinkCraft Academy, the place you possibly can go from studying about AI to constructing your personal instruments to make use of in day by day life. The programs are free, and greater than seven million folks have been in a position to study from them.
UN Information: Your choice to rent your personal father garnered a whole lot of consideration. What was the considering behind that?
Raul John Aju: I can acquire as a lot information as I would like from my cellphone, however I don’t have his expertise. He has labored for corporations like Amazon, Adobe, Wipro, and IBM, so I can study from him. Additionally, to be sincere, it was good for my advertising!
UN Information: You’ve got taught a whole lot of college students. What has that have been like?
Raul John Aju: I inform them that I would like all of them to start out utilizing AI however on the similar time not neglect the human inside them. I at all times say that a very powerful ability on the earth of AI is to be as human as attainable.
Raul John Aju at a TEDx occasion.
UN Information: The place do you see your self within the subsequent 10 years?
I do need to come up with the money for to have the ability to get no matter I would like for my mother and father or for myself. On the similar time, I would like my instruments to make day by day life simpler for folks. I additionally need to spend time within the West and carry on studying.
UN Information: How would you sum up your journey thus far?
Raul John Aju: I assume I might say two issues. To begin with, be humble or the world will humble you. Second, comply with your ardour, not cash, as a result of in the event you comply with your ardour, the cash will routinely come.
