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Nasscom’s Feedback on the Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development
Nasscom’s Feedback on the Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development

March 4, 2025

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We submitted our feedback on the Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development (Report), which was prepared by the subcommittee on ‘AI Governance and Guidelines Development’ (Subcommittee) and published by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) on January 6, 2025, for public consultation.

 

Our feedback begins by considering the chronological timeline of the report, from the constitution of the subcommittee (November 2023), up to the finalisation of the report (early 2024). Basis this, we observe that report reflects a context that is, perhaps, one year old.

 

Given the fast-paced nature of changes in the global AI ecosystem, we contextualise some of the major developments from the past one year and highlight that India’s position in the global AI ecosystem will have an important bearing on its role in how and to what extent we can influence a human-centric approach to AI governance, both in the global and domestic context.

 

Suggestions on India’s AI Approach

 

AI has potential to be an important driver of productivity, inclusive socio-economic growth, and innovation, which makes it relevant for India’s ambition of becoming a developed nation. With this vision, we suggest a two-pronged approach to governance that focuses on enabling an ecosystem for innovation and growth, and mitigation of real and observable harms.

 

To ensure our governance approach can progress on both these fronts with required flexibility and agility to deal with the rapid changes in the AI ecosystem, in addition to responding to the specific recommendations in the Report, we have detailed out the following considerations for a holistic governance approach:

  • Identify existing and near-term use-cases of AI.
  • Prioritise foundation models tailored to India centric use cases and India’s tech start-ups.
  • Promote AI data centres.
  • Avoid prescriptive governance frameworks.
  • Test existing laws against AI use cases.
  • Avoid regulation based on ‘speculated or perceived harms’.
  • Identify the control or influence that parties have over any given outcome.
  • Build capacity to deal with developments in key overseas markets.
  • Review the scope of “fair dealing” exception under the Copyright Act.

 

Our detailed submission is attached below. For more information, kindly write to sudipto@nasscom.in or dhananjay@nasscom.in, with a copy to policy@nasscom.in

 


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Dhananjay Sharma
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