Centre working on draft AI regulation framework: Three things the government is focussing on | – Times of India

The government is working on a draft regulatory framework for artificial intelligence (AI) and aims to unveil it by June-July this year, IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said. His comments came at a time when there are concerns globally over a rise in deepfakes and harm associated with it.
“India has offered to lead the charge on creating this draft paper,” Chandrasekhar said, addressing the Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum (NTLF) 2024 in Mumbai.
“We expect to have a draft framework discussed and debated before June-July of this year, and have a mid-year GPAI (Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence) Summit, where if not all, but most countries and especially the Global South, who normally get excluded from any debate about the future of tech, that they also participate,” he added.

“This is so we can agree on these guardrails and what the nature, form and shape of these rules and these protocols will be. They will essentially be around this basic principle that says that every platform has to be legally accountable for any harm that it causes or enables, and corollary that they should not enable criminality,” the minister noted.
Three focus points for the government
As per Chandrasekhar, the aim for AI regulation is to harness AI for economic growth. Secondly, he said that with these regulations, the government also wants to address potential risks and harms.
“We will fully realise the potential of AI but set up the guardrails as well to prevent misuse,” he added, highlighting that with 900 million Indians online and soon to be 1.3 billion people connected to the global internet, India has both an opportunity to collaborate on regulations and create guardrails that protect citizens.
Thirdly, the IT minister also noted that the government believes having strong talent in India will provide an advantage to India in having global competitiveness.
“We are now moving to include a wide spectrum of discovery, be it invention of devices, electronics, products, AI, applications, or semiconductors, and a lot of this is going to develop into this next wave of innovations,” he added.