India’s AI regulations will allow room for innovation, but with eye on safety, says top govt. official
NEW DELHI : India will take a light-touch approach in regulating artificial intelligence to allow sufficient room for innovation, emulating how IT services companies were allowed to flourish in the 1990s. Despite recognizing key challenges to be resolved in the evolution of AI in India, the Union government sees AI as a sector where “the positives outweigh the negatives", S.
Krishnan, secretary, ministry of electronics and IT (Meity), said on Thursday addressing the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)’s Global Economic Policy Forum. He quoted Gita Gopinath, former managing director of IMF, as saying recently that AI can trigger an increase in productivity and economic change similar to what was seen during the industrial revolution.
“This possibility interests us—from India’s perspective, the positives outweigh the negatives in the government’s policy thinking on AI," Krishnan said. “Clearly, there are safety concerns, with deepfakes and misrepresentations that have already been raised, and will need to be addressed more seriously in the days to come." On the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) Summit in Delhi scheduled for 12 December, Krishnan said one key goal for India would be to expand the number of members that are already part of the global 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 existing national programmes on AI—“primarily to cover what we can do in compute in conjunction with the
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