{"id":1018891,"date":"2026-07-04T08:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018891"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:59:13","slug":"ai-to-get-dedicated-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/ai-to-get-dedicated-law\/","title":{"rendered":"AI to get dedicated law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ministry of electronics and IT (MeitY) has begun discussions on a standalone law to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), marking a significant shift in the government\u2019s approach after months of maintaining that existing legal provisions were adequate to deal with AI-related risks. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the sidelines of the CII Cybersecurity 360 Summit on Friday, MeitY Secretary S Krishnan said the ministry believes the time has come to examine a dedicated legislative framework for AI as the technology evolves rapidly. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cExisting laws have helped address initial AI-related concerns, but now the time has come to look at a separate legislation and see how this is done,\u201d Krishnan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ministry of electronics and IT (MeitY) has begun discussions on a standalone law to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), marking a significant shift in the government\u2019s approach after months of maintaining that existing legal provisions were adequate to deal with AI-related risks. Speaking on the sidelines of the CII Cybersecurity 360 Summit on Friday, MeitY Secretary S Krishnan said the ministry believes the time has come to examine a dedicated legislative framework for AI as the technology evolves rapidly. \u201cExisting laws have helped address initial AI-related concerns, but now the time has come to look at a separate legislation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018913,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018891\/revisions\/1018913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}