MoS seeks global collaboration on AI regulation

Union Minister of State for Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar emphasized the urgency of adapting regulations to keep pace with the evolving landscape of AI at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) summit in Delhi. The Union Minister also highlighted the pervasive nature of AI in our surroundings. “AI exists around us. AI is already there. Regulation today is playing catch-up with AI.The reason India is in GPAI is that we will work with GPAI to create a global framework, which will then be reflected in hopefully harmonised national law. The Internet is without boundaries and geographies,” MoS Chandrasekhar said. He also said that most countries are now coming out and saying what India has always been saying about regulating AI and other emerging technologies. The Union minister today met Viscount Camrose, UK’s Minister of AI and Intellectual Property and Hiroshi Yoshida, Japan’s Vice Minister of Policy Coordination, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. After the meeting, Minister Rajeev said they spoke about what governments are looking, how governments of like-minded countries are looking at regulating AI, what are the issues of safety and trust that governments are looking at, and what are the governments’ role in enabling the growth of AI.