New Delhi : India will regulate artificial intelligence (AI) to protect its citizens from harm, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.
New Delhi : India will regulate artificial intelligence (AI) to protect its citizens from harm, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.
“Our approach to AI regulation is very simple. Just like we regulate Web3 and other emerging technologies, we regulate AI so that it does not harm the digital nagrik.” Chandrasekhar said on Friday, speaking of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nine-year rule.
“Our approach to AI regulation is very simple. Just like we regulate Web3 and other emerging technologies, we regulate AI so that it does not harm the digital nagrik.” Chandrasekhar said on Friday, speaking of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nine-year rule.
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He added that while the 2022 Digital Personal Data Protection Bill will soon be tabled in parliament, consultations on the proposed 2023 Digital India Act will begin this month.
“Our approach to AI regulation, or any regulation, is to regulate in terms of user harm. We will not allow the operation of any platform in India that harms the country,” he added.
Chandrasekhar said Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, which developed the popular chatbot program ChatGPT, called for regulation of major companies operating in the AI space, including his own. However, it was done at a time when they argued that small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups should be deregulated. Because it can stifle innovation. He added that the threat of AI removing or replacing jobs is unlikely in the near future because current AI is task-oriented and not sophisticated enough.
“Although AI is disruptive, I affirm that in the current state of AI development, we do not see the threat of so-called job displacement or job elimination in the next few years, as AI is highly task-oriented rather than logical. It can be logical, there is usually reasoning in the work, and logical AI is not sophisticated enough at this stage,” he said.
However, AI may replace jobs at very low levels of intelligence and repetitive tasks, and may become intelligent enough to replace jobs in the next 5-10 years. There is, he pointed out. “Today, AI is being applied to tasks, making them more efficient,” he said.
Discussing India’s digitization journey over the past nine years, the Minister added that the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill will soon be submitted to parliament while consultations on the Digital India Bill will begin this month.
