Work on to assess safety of AI; job loss from GenAI not intense in India: IT Secy

The IT ministry is working on a mechanism to assess safety and trust elements in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions but does not want to start with a regulation as it may hurt innovation in the AI space, a top official said on Thursday. Speaking at CII’s Global Economic Policy Forum, Ministry of Electronics and IT secretary S Krishnan said the government has broadly addressed key regulations barring a couple of the issues like copyright and existential crisis.