IT Minister says India to regulate AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard: Report

In an interaction with Times of India, the minister said that the growing influence of AI platforms is being looked into by various countries. 

“The whole world is looking at what should be the framework, and what should be the regulatory setup. In G7, all digital ministers (of G7 countries) are seriously concerned about what should be the regulatory framework. So, this is a global thing. This is not one country’s issue. This has to be looked at from the international perspective,” Vaishnaw told TOI.

He stated that the AI regulation laws in India will be drafted in conjunction with other like-minded nations. Vaishnaw said that there are “concerns around IPR, copyright, bias of algorithm” on platforms like ChatGPT and Bard.

Answering the question whether AI will require a separate regulation, Vaishnaw told TOI that it would flow into that direction. “Ultimately, as I said, all the countries will have to come up with some co-operative framework,” he said.

Earlier this year, European Union (EU) lawmakers introduced rules to regulate AI technology. China has also drafted rules to manage how companies develop generative AI products like ChatGPT.

This week, OpenAI (the maker of ChatGPT) CEO Sam Altman appeared before the US senate panel saying that one of his greatest fears from ChatGPT is the disruption to the labor market, and called on Congress to help address the impact. He said that AI would be good at tasks but not jobs. He added that it has the potential to create many better quality jobs even if some are lost.

Altman told Congress that government intervention will be critical to mitigating the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems. “As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live. We are too,” OpenAI CEO said.