The federal government is engaged on a draft regulatory framework for synthetic intelligence (AI) and goals to unveil it by June-July this 12 months, IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar mentioned. His feedback got here at a time when there are considerations globally over an increase in deepfakes and hurt related to it. “India has offered to lead the charge on creating this draft paper,” Chandrasekhar mentioned, addressing the Nasscom Know-how and Management Discussion board (NTLF) 2024 in Mumbai.“We expect to have a draft framework discussed and debated before June-July of this year, and have a mid-year GPAI (Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence) Summit, where if not all, but most countries and especially the Global South, who normally get excluded from any debate about the future of tech, that they also participate,” he added. “This is so we can agree on these guardrails and what the nature, form and shape of these rules and these protocols will be. They will essentially be around this basic principle that says that every platform has to be legally accountable for any harm that it causes or enables, and corollary that they should not enable criminality,” the minister famous.Three focus factors for the federal government As per Chandrasekhar, the purpose for AI regulation is to harness AI for financial development. Secondly, he mentioned that with these laws, the federal government additionally needs to handle potential dangers and harms.“We will fully realise the potential of AI but set up the guardrails as well to prevent misuse,” he added, highlighting that with 900 million Indians on-line and shortly to be 1.3 billion folks related to the worldwide web, India has each a chance to collaborate on laws and create guardrails that shield residents.Thirdly, the IT minister additionally famous that the federal government believes having sturdy expertise in India will present a bonus to India in having international competitiveness.“We are now moving to include a wide spectrum of discovery, be it invention of devices, electronics, products, AI, applications, or semiconductors, and a lot of this is going to develop into this next wave of innovations,” he added.
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