India Commits to Ethical AI with New EoI initiative

The IndiaAI Mission has selected eight Responsible AI Projects against the Expression of Interest (EoI) floated under the Safe and Trusted AI Pillar of the IndiaAI Mission.

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The IndiaAI Mission has selected eight Responsible AI Projects against the Expression of Interest (EoI) floated under the Safe and Trusted AI Pillar of the IndiaAI Mission.

About Project

The IndiaAI Mission, under the Digital India Corporation and Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), has selected eight Responsible AI Projects from over 2000 proposals submitted by academic institutions, start-ups, and research organisations.
These projects aim to advance the responsible development, deployment and adoption of AI technologies in India by creating indigenous tools, frameworks and guidelines that reflect the country’s unique challenges and opportunities.

About selected projects.

Machine Unlearning: Develop techniques to enable AI models to “forget” specific data points, enhancing privacy and security.
Synthetic Data Generation: Address data bias issues by generating synthetic data to ensure AI fairness.
AI Bias Mitigation: Focus on reducing bias in AI systems, particularly in sensitive fields like healthcare.
Explainable AI: Promote AI transparency by making AI models more interpretable and ensuring data privacy, especially for security-related applications.
Privacy-Enhancing Tools: Create robust privacy-preserving machine learning models for sensitive applications.
Ethical Certification: Establish a toolset, “Nishpaksh,” to evaluate AI models for fairness and ethical behaviour.
Algorithm Auditing: Build frameworks for auditing AI algorithms to assess and improve accountability and fairness.
AI Governance: Develop a governance framework to assess and monitor the safety, transparency, and ethical risks of large AI models like LLMs.

IndiaAI Mission

It is a government initiative to promote artificial intelligence (AI) innovation in India:
Aim:
- To create a robust AI ecosystem in India by democratising access to computing resources, improving data quality and fostering industry partnerships.
- The mission also seeks to promote ethical AI practices and support startups.
Focus areas: Healthcare, education, agriculture, smart cities and infrastructure.
Key initiatives:
- IndiaAI Application Development Pillar: This initiative promotes AI solutions in critical sectors by developing, scaling and promoting AI applications.
- IndiaAI FutureSkills: This initiative aims to break down barriers to AI education by offering fellowships to students in top engineering colleges.
INDIAai Platform: This platform serves as a one-stop portal for AI-related development in India. It provides resources such as articles, news, interviews and investment funding news and events. It also offers AI courses, both free and paid.
Lead agencies for the mission: NITI Aayog, the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).