India summit next month to pave the way for global framework on AI risks

After the successful AI Safety Summit in the UK, New Delhi will be hosting the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) next month. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, said that the summit will further deliberate upon the risks associated with Artificial Intelligence, in the presence of world leaders. Chandrasekhar, attended the UK summit this week as India, along with 27 countries signed a declaration pledging to work on the assessment of risks linked with AI. About two years ago the government started talking very clearly about what ought to be the principles and foundational elements around policy-making for the today and the tomorrow of technology, he said.

"We have been talking about openness, safety and trust and accountability. We have always argued that innovation must not get ahead of regulation. We have spoken about the need to have safe and trusted platforms," he told reporters.

At the UK summit, "we have proposed, and this will certainly be a theme at the GPAI and the India AI summit, that technology should not be demonised to a point that we regulate it out of existence and innovation," the minister noted.

According to him, the future of technology must be designed by countries coming and working together on mitigating the potential risks associated with technologies like AI.

"The governments will work in an urgent manner and by the South Korea AI summit next year, we will have the global framework in place," the minister said.

As the council chair of GPAI, India is set to host the annual summit at Pragati Maidan in Delhi from December 12-14.e