Trai recommends independent body to regulate AI
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Thursday released a set of recommendations advocating the urgent adoption of a regulatory framework to govern the responsible development of artificial intelligence (AI) across sectors. Trai’s 10-page report said it was important to regulate specific AI use cases that may have a direct impact on humans within a risk-based framework.
Trai also recommended the establishment of an Artificial Intelligence and Data Authority of India( AIDAI), an independent statutory authority, that will act both as a regulator and recommendatory body and play an advisory role for all AI-related domains. Trai recommended that the ministry of electronics and information technology should be the administrative ministry for AI.
“The regulatory framework should ensure specific AI use cases are regulated on a risk-based framework where high-risk use cases directly impacting humans are regulated via legally binding obligations." The role of AI is not limited to the telecom sector but has the potential to influence a wide range of sectors including healthcare, transportation, finance, education and agriculture, among others, it said. Hence, it is important to have a holistic approach to examine AI’s impact across sectors, rather than focusing only on telecom, the report added.
The department of telecommunication had asked the regulator for the recommendations in 2020, but Trai said that AI technology is evolving and, therefore, it took time to examine all aspects to come up with the multiple use cases for AI and machine translation in telecommunication and other sectors by studying the various international practices, which were also at a nascent stage. AIDAI will facilitate adoption of all future
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