India looks at AI with prism of openness, safety, and accountability: Rajeev Chandrasekhar at AI summit

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Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, in his address to the world's first global summit on Artificial Intelligence in the UK on Wednesday, said India looks at AI with a prism of openness, safety, trust and accountability. Addressing the 'AI Safety Summit 2023', Chandrasekhar said India has maintained that international collaborations and international conversations was extremely important at a time and a year when "technology is throwing up most exiting opportunities ever in the history of mankind."

The minister emphasised that India sees AI as "the next big opportunity."

"We are extremely clear in our minds on mitigation on what AI and indeed any emerging technology can and will represent, a prism of openness, safety, trust and accountability," he said

"Words like AI for good are something I don't understand. Is there an AI for bad? We certainly don't think there should be any doubt in anybody's minds that the future of technology must always be for the good," the Union Minister said at the plenary session of the summit.

Chandrasekhar added that "technooptimism notwithstanding a new regime needs to be built on the greater accountability of user harm, a greater accountability of those who use the platform whether it is caused by AI or the broader larger internet".

"We have learnt in the last 10-15 years as governments that by allowing innovation to get ahead of regulation, we open ourselves to the toxicity, misinformation and the weaponisation that we see on the internet today represented by social media and that is not what we want to chart for the AI," he said.

"We can certainly agree that this is not the vision we should have for AI in the coming years. We want AI and the broader internet