AI should not be demonised, be regulated out of existence: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar on November 3 said that regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and ensuring safety for users cannot come at the expense of the growth of research, startups and innovation ecosystem associated with the technology.

Chandrasekhar, who was speaking to media persons after returning from the United Kingdom where he took part in the AI Safety Summit, and where he held multiple meetings with his counterparts from various countries, said: "(During the summit) we kept reiterating that for us safety is an important issue, but our goal is to grow AI and making sure that ecosystem for AI, research, startups and innovation, is as important for us as safety of AI. It is not a binary choice that we do safety at the expense of the risk of growth of the digital economy."

"AI remains for India, as for the world a very good opportunity. It should not be demonised.. be regulated out of existence," he said.

Chandrasekhar, during these meetings also called for the establishment of an institutional framework between countries for regulating AI and a consensus on the dos and don'ts of AI among nations.