Master AI technology, says Prabu

The Government will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) for good governance and proper regulations and corrective action will be taken to protect citizen’s privacy and ownership of data.

Giving this assurance, Commerce & Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu said: “India is transporting more data than US and China put together and the top six companies in the world are using this data with value addition and monetization.”

India is strengthening its legal system and regulatory framework to deal with this world of digital data, he added.

The Minister said that AI is the technology of today and one who masters this will rule the world. “Every country is developing an AI strategy and India too is working on developing a strategy for the use of AI for the common good.”

Commerce Minister was speaking at the International Colloquium on Ethics and Governance of Autonomous AI System for a Better World held in New Delhi on 18 Feb 2019.

The two-day Colloquium, held 18-19 Feb, has been organized by Department of Science and Technology, CMS, ITUAPT and InfocomThink Tank.

The opening session was addressed by Prof. K Vijay Raghvan, Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India and Dr. R. S. Sharma, Chairman, TRAI. Prof. Vijay Raghvan in his remarks said that the Indian Government has taken the initiative to formulate a national strategy for use of AI and make the process transparent and participative in order to create awareness in civil society about AI.

This is the first time in human history that machines are taking decisions based on data and experience and India has to learn to deal with this kind of decision making.

The Government will have to put in place mechanisms on how data is used and algorithms are written, the Colloquium heard.

As all the data being generated in world today is being controlled by few companies, it is creating asymmetries as very few create, understand and use this data.

This has given rise to a very powerful elite who are controlling millions of lives.

The Government will have to take massive efforts in the fundamental education of every Indian from school level so that access to mathematics and technology is available to each and every student.

In the present world those who can’t access technology will be on the other side as AI is creating an ethical divide. Therefore, education at the foundation level has to be upgraded urgently.

Dr. R. S. Sharma, Chairman TRAI, in his address said that a data rich country like India must develop a national policy spelling out ownership of data, privacy of data generated by citizens and issues of data portability so that the sovereignty of country is not compromised. fiinews.com