Four of the eight responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) solutions developed under the IndiaAI Mission’s safe and trusted AI pillar are expected to go live on the mission's AIKosha portal between September and December. The government is also aiming to make available the 30 projects selected under the application development initiative within a month as “try models”, said an official.
The RAI solutions to be made available are in areas such as machine unlearning, bias mitigation, risk assessment and fairness assessment, IndiaAI Mission chief operating officer Kavita Bhatia told ET on the sidelines of a consultation on AI readiness assessment methodologies in Delhi on Tuesday.
Deepfake detection tools are still in the works, according to her. More than 400 applications have been received for areas like deepfake detection tools and watermarking of AI-generated content. These are under evaluation and the aim is to make all such tools open-source, she said.
The 30 selected AI applications under the application development initiative are under the themes of healthcare, agriculture, climate change management, governance and learning disabilities.
Safe & Trusted AI and IndiaAI Application Development Initiative are among the seven pillars of the Rs 10,000 crore IndiaAI Mission. The others are the IndiaAI Compute Capacity, IndiaAI Innovation Centre, IndiaAI Datasets Platform, IndiaAI FutureSkills and IndiaAI Startup Financing.
The government had last year invited expressions of interest for RAI tools and received about 2,000 applications. The eight selected participants include IIT Jodhpur, IIT Roorkee and IIT Delhi. More than 900 submissions were received for the application development initiative, according to the electronics and information technology ministry’s statements.
“We need to assess what is the readiness with regard to making AI applications that are inclusive, that are responsible, that are safe, that are trustworthy and which follow the ethical framework,” said Abhishek Singh, CEO, IndiaAI Mission, speaking at the consultation.
While support for AI models, computing and language application programming interfaces are there, the solutions need to be fair and meet real needs on the ground, he said, reiterating that India’s approach to AI regulation is pro-innovation and light-touch with a focus on preventing harm.
The government is collaborating with UNESCO and Ikigai Law to produce a report on an AI readiness methodology for India. The final stakeholder consultation for this was held in Delhi on Tuesday. Consultations had earlier been held in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Guwahati.
“Globally, we know that AI systems are being used to allocate welfare benefits, screen job applications, generate educational content and even inform judicial and healthcare decisions,” said Tim Curtis, director and UNESCO representative for the UNESCO regional office in Delhi. “In India's context, if these tools are not designed with a whole spectrum of users in mind, including marginalised communities, they really do risk leaving a lot of people behind.”
The risks could undermine AI’s immense benefits if proactive measures are not taken for responsible development and usage, he added.
The RAI solutions to be made available are in areas such as machine unlearning, bias mitigation, risk assessment and fairness assessment, IndiaAI Mission chief operating officer Kavita Bhatia told ET on the sidelines of a consultation on AI readiness assessment methodologies in Delhi on Tuesday.
Deepfake detection tools are still in the works, according to her. More than 400 applications have been received for areas like deepfake detection tools and watermarking of AI-generated content. These are under evaluation and the aim is to make all such tools open-source, she said.
The 30 selected AI applications under the application development initiative are under the themes of healthcare, agriculture, climate change management, governance and learning disabilities.
Safe & Trusted AI and IndiaAI Application Development Initiative are among the seven pillars of the Rs 10,000 crore IndiaAI Mission. The others are the IndiaAI Compute Capacity, IndiaAI Innovation Centre, IndiaAI Datasets Platform, IndiaAI FutureSkills and IndiaAI Startup Financing.
The government had last year invited expressions of interest for RAI tools and received about 2,000 applications. The eight selected participants include IIT Jodhpur, IIT Roorkee and IIT Delhi. More than 900 submissions were received for the application development initiative, according to the electronics and information technology ministry’s statements.
“We need to assess what is the readiness with regard to making AI applications that are inclusive, that are responsible, that are safe, that are trustworthy and which follow the ethical framework,” said Abhishek Singh, CEO, IndiaAI Mission, speaking at the consultation.
While support for AI models, computing and language application programming interfaces are there, the solutions need to be fair and meet real needs on the ground, he said, reiterating that India’s approach to AI regulation is pro-innovation and light-touch with a focus on preventing harm.
The government is collaborating with UNESCO and Ikigai Law to produce a report on an AI readiness methodology for India. The final stakeholder consultation for this was held in Delhi on Tuesday. Consultations had earlier been held in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Guwahati.
“Globally, we know that AI systems are being used to allocate welfare benefits, screen job applications, generate educational content and even inform judicial and healthcare decisions,” said Tim Curtis, director and UNESCO representative for the UNESCO regional office in Delhi. “In India's context, if these tools are not designed with a whole spectrum of users in mind, including marginalised communities, they really do risk leaving a lot of people behind.”
The risks could undermine AI’s immense benefits if proactive measures are not taken for responsible development and usage, he added.
