‘AI regulations will ideally be light touch, though harm is concerning’
alliance. “GPAI is dominated by (developed) OECD countries, but how do you bring more of the global south into this? How do you convert AI and use it for the benefit of larger populations? This will be an important objective of what we’d try to do at the summit," he said.
He added that alongside taking a light-touch approach to regulating AI, the Centre will seek to expand the already existing national programme on AI—“primarily to cover what we can do in compute in conjunction with the world." Compute, Krishnan noted, is one of the top recognized challenges in the domestic development of AI. This was addressed on 13 October by union minister of state for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who announced the Centre’s ‘India AI’ strategy.
This included a ‘datasets platform’ to organize and provide a centrally collated data pool for Indic languages, and a second platform that will seek to develop indigenous compute power through public-private partnerships. On 3 November, Chandrasekhar said India highlighted four key concerns and areas of focus as part of being one of 28 signatories of the Bletchley Declaration—the first global cross-border collaborative agreement, held in the UK, to regulate AI jointly.
Industry leaders, over time, have agreed on the need to regulate AI across nations. On 28 August, Brad Smith, president at Microsoft, told Mint that a global regulatory framework on AI could help set guiderails for the global AI industry.
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