Need to control way AI models function: MeitY Secretary

The Government has invested in developing indigenous and sovereign artificial intelligence models to address concerns related to bias and to ensure that India has AI systems primarily trained on Indian data, a senior official said on Tuesday.

S Krishnan, Secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), said that sovereignty is a very important issue, and India needs to have AI models where “nobody else has the kill switch, and it was always with us”.