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

Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Addressing the world's first global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Summit in the UK, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar on November 1 said that India looks at AI with a prism of openness, safety, trust and accountability.

The minister 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 that the future of technology must always be for the good."

He called for a new framework to be built where platforms are held more accountable for user harm, whether it is caused by AI or the 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," 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 context to represent goodness, safety, and trust. Platforms and innovators must demonstrate accountability and uphold the law," he added.

Speaking at the Summit, British Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan warned that AI “could also further concentrate unaccountable power in the hands of the few or be maliciously used to undermine public trust”.

Hosted by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, the two-day summit is bringing together representatives from 27 countries.

Donelan also announced that the next AI Safety Summit will be hosted by the Republic of Korea in six months' time and then by France in one year's time.