India’s role key in shaping AI rules as it’s a producer market: Wipro's Ivana Bartoletti

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Wipro executive told ET.

“Because India is the largest country in the world (in terms of population), it will be generating demand that is going to create growth and India will be also producing a lot of data," said Ivana Bartoletti, global chief privacy officer, Wipro. «Hence, that trust element becomes absolutely important. Second, India will be serving global markets and that means there is more alignment on the discussion (governance and responsible AI) that is happening worldwide.”

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According to her, businesses will have to distinguish between the scale and the hype as they operate in the real world where technology risks have become more apparent.

“Issues like governance have become more pressing…Businesses have to identify the problem and then identify the technology that can support the solution, not vice versa,” Bartoletti said.

The conversation comes amid the boardroom coup that unfolded at Microsoft-backed OpenAI over the past two weeks. The firing and subsequent quick reinstatement of its co-founder Sam Altman following a change in the company’s Board brings the issues of responsible AI and governance to the fore.

“AI is statistics on steroids...and AI is a lot of stuff. What has changed in the world are LLMs (large language models), which have also been around for a long time, but the difference today is that they are available to everybody,” she said. “The general purpose AI is different from AI, which