MD and CEO of Digital India Corporation Abhishek Singh, emphasise the need for India to have its own framework on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that provides solutions to the diverse nature of the country.
As many countries have legislative interventions, there is no law in India to regulate AI, Abhishek Singh claim.
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Abhishek Singh said virtually addressing the first CeRAI (Centre for Responsible AI) workshop on responsible AI for India held at the IIT Madras.
The guidelines on AI would not limit innovation but allow innovation and creativity to prosper while offering ethical and responsible solutions to the users, Abhishek Singh said.
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has its own committee on AI that proposes a draft for Indian standards equivalent to ISO standards.
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Though on a positive note, many firms and even start-ups claim they are for responsible AI, they don’t adopt to those standards.
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Prof V Kamakoti, director, IIT Madras, also spoke.
The IIT-M has establish the CeRAI, an interdisciplinary research centre, to ensure ethical and responsible development of AI-based solutions in the real world.
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Prof Balaraman Ravindran, head, CeRAI, said that it is important for the AI model and its predictions to be explainable and interpretable when they are to be deploy in various critical sectors/domains such as the healthcare, manufacturing and banking/finance among many other areas.
Prof Balaraman Ravindran Said :