The Centre will publish a consultation paper within a month that will form the foundation of India’s techno-legal regulatory framework for artificial intelligence (AI), electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday. The paper will focus on five areas — safety, humanity, skilling, inclusivity and harm mitigation.
Beyond the consultation paper, the government announced several other measures. A three-to-four-year roadmap for using Indian-made GPUs for AI inference will be announced in the coming months. “Time has come for AI regulation. The government will also empanel AI models for official use within government departments.
It has begun the next stage of its long-term procurement of 10,000 GPUs, and an order for 5,000 of them has already been issued.
I have asked the department to come out with a regulation-focused consultation paper which will focus on safety, humanity, skilling, inclusivity and harms which come from society…in a month’s time we should be able to publish the consultation paper – which will form the base for the AI regulation that has to come,” Vaishnaw said, while speaking at the launch of World Development Report ‘The Promise of Artificial Intelligence’ in New Delhi.
The World Bank’s report on AI ‘The Promise of Artificial Intelligence’ released Thursday is an assessment of what AI means for the 6.8 billion people in low- and middle-income countries. The ministry, industry and universities can work together to upgrade course curricula, he said, so that students entering college today can benefit from AI. Vaishnaw added that the government has received industry suggestions on an AI-focused curriculum for students and young people, and has forwarded them to the Ministry of Education. It argues that AI is a general-purpose technology, like steam power, electricity and the internet, but one that is spreading far faster.
