On the latest India AI summit, Raul informed UN Information what drives his ardour for the expertise, 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 how you can combine AI into public companies and is the founding father of AI Realm Applied sciences.
Raul’s achievements have led to talking engagements at main expertise corporations, and invites to worldwide conferences, corresponding 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-Normal António Guterres.
After a UN-organised panel dialogue on AI and kids’s security, at which he delivered the opening handle, Raul sat down with Anshu Sharma from UN Information to speak about his business trip, hopes for the longer term and the way younger individuals ought to finest have interaction with AI.
This interview has been edited for readability and size
UN Information: Why did you get all for expertise?
Raul John Aju: I found expertise by video enhancing. When my father bought a job at Adobe I bought free entry to all of the premium instruments and I used to be capable of study AI. After that I created my robotic [known as MeBot, built for a school science project].
UN Information: How did you come to start out your personal firm?
Raul John Aju: The primary motive was I needed all the instruments that I had constructed to be underneath one model identify. I additionally needed to create a cost system to make individuals’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: Considered one of them is the Rescue AI software. The thought is that, should you’re concerned in an emergency scenario, the software will let you know what to do, and which legal guidelines apply. It would join you with a lawyer and likewise assist the lawyer to craft a technique to win the case, by hundreds of comparable circumstances.
One other mission is ThinkCraft Academy, the place you’ll be able to go from studying about AI to constructing your personal instruments to make use of in each day life. The programs are free, and greater than seven million individuals have been capable of study from them.
UN Information: Your determination to rent your personal father garnered numerous consideration. What was the considering behind that?
Raul John Aju: I can achieve as a lot information as I need from my telephone, 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 have taught numerous college students. What has that have been like?
Raul John Aju: I inform them that I need all of them to start out utilizing AI however on the identical time not neglect the human inside them. I at all times say that a very powerful ability on this planet of AI is to be as human as doable.
UN Information: The place do you see your self within the subsequent 10 years?
I do wish to manage to pay for to have the ability to get no matter I need for my dad and mom or for myself. On the identical time, I need my instruments to make each day life simpler for individuals. I additionally wish to spend time within the West and carry on studying.
UN Information: How would you sum up your journey to this point?
Raul John Aju: I suppose I might say two issues. To start with, be humble or the world will humble you. Second, observe your ardour, not cash, as a result of should you observe your ardour, the cash will mechanically come.
