Context

Efforts are being made at global level to formalise AI regulations.

AI Regulation:

• United Nations Resolution on Artificial Intelligence: It is the first global resolution on artificial intelligence to encourage the protection of personal data, the monitoring of AI for risks, and the safeguarding of human rights.
• EU’s AI Act: TheEU recently passed the AI Act, the foremost law establishing rules and regulations governing AI systems. With its risk-based approach, the Act categorises systems into four categories, namely unacceptable, high, limited, and minimal risks, prescribing guidelines for each. The Act prescribes an absolute ban on applications that risk citizens’ rights, including manipulation of human behaviour, emotion recognition, mass surveillance etc. 
• China’s AI Approach: China focuses on prompting AI tools and innovation with safeguards against any future harm to the nation’s social and economic goals. The country released, in phases, a regulatory framework addressing the following three issues —
  • content moderation
  • personal data protection
  • algorithmic governance
• K.’s framework: The UK has adopted a principled and context-based approach in its ongoing efforts to regulate AI systems. The approach requires mandatory consultations with regulatory bodies, expanding its technical know-how and expertise in better regulating complex technologies while bridging regulatory gaps, if any.

India’s position

• India AI mission: A Rs. 10,300 crore allocation was approved for the India AI mission to further its AI ecosystem through enhanced public-private partnerships and promote the start-up ecosystem.
• Amongst other initiatives, the allocation would be used to deploy 10,000 Graphic Processing Units, Large Multi-Models (LMMs) and other AI-based research collaboration and efficient and innovative projects.