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1. Why in news 
2. कबसे हमने सोचना चालू किया 
3. कौन सी बातों का ध्यान रखें 
4. Learn from US UK 
5. Way forward.....

AI Safety Institute under the IndiaAI Mission

WHY IN NEWS ? 

October, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) convened meetings with industry and experts to discuss setting up an AI Safety Institute under the IndiaAI Mission. 

कहां से इस विचार की  शुरुआत हुई है ?

Curiously, this came on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the U.S., the Quad Leaders’ Summit, and the United Nations Summit of the Future. 

AI appeared high on the agenda in the run up to the Summit of the Future, with a high-level UN advisory panel producing a report on Governing AI for Humanity.

The design of the Safety Institute 

should prioritise raising domestic capacity, capitalising on India’s comparative advantages, and plugging into international initiatives.

Summit of the Future yielded the 

Global Digital Compact that identifies multi-stakeholder collaboration, human-centric oversight, and inclusive participation of developing countries as essential pillars of AI governance and safety.

 As a follow up, the UN will now commence a Global Dialogue on AI. It would be timely for India to establish an AI Safety Institute which engages with the Bletchley Process on AI Safety. 

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Institutional reform

कौन सी बातों का ध्यान रखें

concerns stemming from MeitY’s AI Advisory

In designing the institute, India should learn from concerns stemming from MeitY’s AI Advisory in March 2024, which proposed that there be government approvals before the public roll-out of experimental AI systems. 

what kind of institutional capability 

Other provisions on 

• bias, 
• discrimination, 
• and the one-size-fits-all treatment of all AI deployments indicated that the advisory was not based on technical evidence.

avoid prescriptive regulatory controls 

Similarly, India should be cautious and avoid prescriptive regulatory controls which have been proposed in the European Union (EU) and China.

Learn from US UK 

The U.S. and the U.K. were the first two to set up these institutes and have already signed an MoU to exchange knowledge, resources, and expertise. 

Both institutions are also signing MoUs with AI labs and receiving early access to large foundation models.

 They have installed mechanisms to share technical inputs with the AI labs before their public roll outs. 

These Safety Institutes facilitate proactive information sharing without being regulators. 

They are positioned as technical government institutions that leverage multi-stakeholder consortiums and partnerships to assess the risk of frontier AI models to public safety. 

However, they largely consider AI safety through the lens of 

• cybersecurity, 
• infrastructure security, 
• safety of the biosphere, and
•  other national security threats.

These safety institutes aim 

to 

• improve government capacity 
• and mainstream the idea of external third-party testing 
• and risk mitigations 
• and assessments. 

The Bletchley process 

presents India with an opportunity to collaborate with governments and stakeholders from across the world. 

Shared expertise will be essential to keep up with AI’s rapid innovation trajectories.

Charting India’s approach

India should establish an AI Safety Institute which integrates into the Bletchley network of safety institutes. 

For now, it should be independent from rulemaking and enforcement authorities and, instead, operate exclusively as a technical research, testing, and standardisation agency. 

It would allow India’s domestic institutions to tap into the expertise of other governments, local multi-stakeholder communities, and international businesses. 

While upscaling its AI oversight capabilities, India can also use the Bletchley network to advance the global majority’s concerns with AI’s individual centric risks.

The institute could champion perspectives on risks relating to 

• bias, 
• discrimination, 
• social exclusion, 
• gendered risks, 
• labour markets, 
• data collection 
• and individual privacy. 

Consequently, it could deepen the global dialogue around 

• harm identification, 
• big picture AI risks, 
• mitigations, 
• red-teaming, 
• and standardisation. 

If done right, India may become a global steward for forward-thinking AI governance which embraces many stakeholders and government collaboration. 

The AI Safety Institute can demonstrate India’s scientific temper and willingness to implement globally compatible, evidence-based and proportionate policy solutions.

Source the hindu