Artificial intelligence (AI) presents a transformative force across various sectors, revolutionizing industries and reshaping societal landscapes. However, its rapid advancement has also given rise to a host of legal challenges like liability and accountability of the errors and harm done by an artificial intelligence system. Privacy breaches, data protection and ethical usage of AI are some of the questions which need immediate attention from the policy makers. In order to initiate that conversation in Lucknow, Saransh Chaturvedi and Co and Trisaamaa Arts jointly organised a panel discussion on “Artificial Intelligence and the emerging legal framework “ at Lurcknow
The event was graced by Prof. D.P. Verma, Member. Law commission of India and other important dignitaries
Prof D.P. Verma, Memebr, Law commission of India, said the challenges a legal framework faces while framing laws on Artificial Intelligence. He mentioned that society and law are intertwined with each other however as the legal system also evolves with the challenges of technology it generally lags behind at the rate of change of technology. Complexity and unpredictability are some of the challenges in legalising Artificial intelligence and for which we need domain experts. He also mentioned the examples of various countries which are trying to frame laws around intelligence and stressed that the Indian approach has to be different than that of all the other countries.
Prof. Vrince Vimal, the first speaker spoke about evolving theories of Artifical Intelligence and their vastness in various fields and industries. He informed the audience that Artificial intelligence is a system which is learning, reasoning, correcting and executing on its own. He also briefly informed about the algorithms which are used to generate a pattern. While talking about the applicability of AI, Dr. Anil Kumar Tiwari, spoke about the revolution which it can bring in the field of Education and climate change, however he stressed that those developments cannot be reckless and they need a sound legal framework to deal with.
Tarun Nangia from Legally Speaking talked about cases where AI is a boon. He mentioned the revolution which AI tools have brought in the electricity consumption in Germany and also mentioned about the copyright infringement which AI enabled systems do. He left the audience with a problem that as AI itself is a self-learning system, who shall own, have patent rights of a new invention done by the AI system?
As criminal liabilities on actions performed by an AI system are still unclear, Dr. V.K. Singh, Govt advocate Lucknow High court highlighted Section 4 of IPC which deals with general exceptions to criminal liability. He said provisions in Section 4 can help in dealing with crimes done by a self-learning and self-executing AI system. Arun Kumar Mishra being a cyber expert highlighted this dimension of AI and how the government system is preparing to meet this challenge.