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GPAI Summit: India crafting declaration for mitigating AI risk, boosting innovation

Electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw says discussions are on to finalise a declaration document, with the hope of reaching consensus

December 11, 2023 / 14:52 IST
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Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw
Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw

The government is working on a multi-country, consensus-based declaration on artificial intelligence, specifically on ways to mitigate risks and fostering innovation, electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on December 11, a day ahead of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit.

"We are negotiating a declaration document which we hope that we will be able to arrive at some consensus,” the minister told mediapersons on the eve of the summit to be held in New Delhi from December 12-14.

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The world's thinking on AI was kind of converging. People understand the dangers, the potential, benefit and also entire world wants to put certain guardrails, the minister said.

The declaration would have a lot of similarities with similar communique such as the Bletchley Declaration, a which was arrived at a consensus by countries participating in the UK AI Safety Summit in November.