India Has Joined GPAI – Burning Issues

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PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES

Founding Members: Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Functions –
Bridge the gap between theory and practice on AI by supporting cutting-edge research and applied activities on AI-related priorities.
An example would be looking at how AI could help societies respond to and recover from the Covid-19 crisis.
Bring together leading experts from industry, civil society, governments, and academia to conduct research and pilot projects on AI.
It will initially comprise four working groups focused on responsible AI, data governance, the future of work, and innovation and commercialisation.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is wide-ranging branch of computer science concerned with building smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence.
AI is an interdisciplinary science with multiple approaches, but advancements in machine learning and deep learning are creating a paradigm shift in virtually every sector of the tech industry.

GPAI will be supported by a Secretariat, to be hosted by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD) in Paris, as well as by two Centersof Expertise-one each in Montreal (Canada) and Paris (France).

GPAI will be able to take advantage of the OECD’s expertise on AI policy and its leadership in setting out the first international standard for trustworthy AI –the OECD Principles on Artificial Intelligence.

India has recently launched National AI Strategy and National AI Portal and have also started leveraging AI across various sectors such as education, agriculture, healthcare, e-commerce, finance, telecommunications, etc.
The National AI strategy was released in 2018 by NITI Aayog. It is termed ‘AIForAll’as it is focused on leveraging AI for inclusive growth in line with the Government policy of SabkaSaathSabkaVikas.

National AI Portal: It has been developed jointly by the National e-Governance Division of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom). The portal is meant to work as a “one stop digital platform” for all AI related developments in India.