India adopts techno legal approach for AI safety: Ashwini Vaishnaw

Asserting that India has adopted techno legal approach for AI safety, Minister of Electronics and Information ‘Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday said the tilt of the government is more toward innovation than regulation.

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“We have taken a very different approach in AI safety, whereas the many parts of the world look at Al safety more as a legal challenge. They want to create a law, pass a law, and then believe that AI safety will come,” he said here. However, he said, “We have taken a techno legal approach, and our Al Safety Institute is a virtual institute, which basically is a network of institutes. And each of these nodes in the network have taken one problem to solve for.”

Speaking at the launch of two initiatives — AI for Viksit Bharat Roadmap: Opportunity for Accelerated Economic Growth and NITI Frontier Tech Repository under its Frontier ‘Tech Hub — by Niti Aayog here, the minister said the government bias in technology is more towards innovation.