India needs culturally rooted AI to break western bias of global models: EY India

As India accelerates its quest for sovereign AI, the nation must prioritise the release of government-held data to counter the western standpoint of current global models, EY’s Rajnish Gupta said.

Ahead of the Union Budget, Gupta urged the government to make vast amounts of public data available to local developers to ensure India builds AI that reflects its own identity.

Gupta, Partner, Tax and Economic Policy Group, EY India, warned that today’s most popular Large Language Models (LLMs) are fundamentally biased because they are trained primarily on US and European data.