Artificial Intelligence has become a pertinent part of our personal and professional lives. It is facilitating anything to everything from writing emails to helping us reach our destinations on time. The pace at which AI is evolving has dazzled the human race given its unprecedented pros and cons. Experts worldwide have been pressing on the need to regulate AI, given its infinite scope. In one of his blog posts Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, proposed setting up an international organisation for governing advanced AI but India has other plans.
The USA has come out with a blueprint for an AI bill of rights. The draft of EU’s AI Act is just awaiting the Parliament’s nod and Italy has gone a step ahead by banning AI platforms like ChatGPT. India has its reservations as far as the regulation of AI is concerned. India is on its way to becoming a level player in the global field by reaping the best benefits of this sensitive technology and is envisioning to become a trillion dollar economy by 2030 with the help of it. However, the centre is in no mood to regulate the dynamics of Artificial Intelligence yet which is a calculated move.
Restricting or expanding the horizons of a very nascent technology is a bold step which the Indian policy makers are not ready to take. However, the Ministry has said that it has addressed the potential concerns of AI and how they can be curbed. in the Digital India Act, 2023. Consultations on principles and guardrails for the use of AI are happening across the country. Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrashekhar recently mentioned that the Digital India Act, 2023 will have a dedicated chapter on emerging technologies, which are not just AI only but AI in particular and multiple other technologies and how they would be regulated through the prism of user harm. The Ministry also said that work into the responsible use of AI has been happening since 2018 and currently the government has been working to provide personalized and interactive citizen-centric services. Currently, there are no specific rules or guidelines that have to be followed by the state governments but they have been asked to keep their eyes and ears open and look around for the developmental potential of AI.
Artificial intelligence has expanded its coverage in recent years rapidly and the way it has made its way in has raised a lot of safety and privacy issues. Stakeholders in the field are even pitching to govern superintelligence which is far more capable than artificial general intelligence for ensuring safety for humanity. It will be very interesting to see how the Indian policy making stakeholders will approach this conservative yet visionary technology in the best possible manner and bring out provisions for its effective implementation and regulation.
