Google invests $1 mn in IIT Madras’ new Centre for Responsible AI

US experience giant Google has been launched as a result of the inaugural ‘platinum consortium’ member of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ (IIT Madras) newly original Centre for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CeRAI), marking its dedication with an preliminary funding of $1 million.

The announcement received right here all through the Centre’s inaugural workshop and panel dialogue held on Monday. The AI division of IIT Madras is slated to assist evaluation duties and develop datasets for AI functions.

CeRAI was formally inaugurated on April 27, with the ceremony presided over by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology.

The Centre has stable collaborations with the commerce physique Nasscom, Southern Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (SICCI), the protection thinktank Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)-affiliated thinktank Research and Information Systems (RIS).

These partnerships intention to promote a accountable use of AI by instructional curriculum development, exploring implications of AI, rising a participative AI framework, and mentoring startups to create accountable AI functions. The startup mentorship and incubation group, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), may be associated to CeRAI, as stated in a press launch.

As part of its AI protection advocacy place, CeRAI will look to “formulate sector-specific ideas and recommendations for policymakers”, according to a press statement by IIT Madras.

Balaraman Ravindran, head of CeRAI and Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI at IIT Madras, said upon the inauguration, “It is important for AI models and their predictions to be explainable and interpretable when they are to be deployed in various critical sectors, such as healthcare, manufacturing and banking and finance. They also need to provide performance guarantees appropriate to the applications they are deployed in — which include data integrity, privacy and robustness of decision making.”

Abhishek Singh, managing director and chief authorities of the Centre’s Digital India Corporation, talked about that it will likely be important for policymakers and researchers to “focus on the risks and challenges whereas using utilized sciences for fixing societal points, making sure entry to healthcare, making healthcare further fairly priced, coaching further inclusive, and agriculture further productive.”

“There is a necessity for an unbiased and non-discriminatory AI framework as we have distinctive requirements that require customization as per our requirements,” he added.

To be sure, this is not the first industry-government-academia confluence on the development of responsible AI applications in India. In November last year, policy thinktank Niti Aayog published a discussion paper on the use of responsible AI in developing facial recognition technology infrastructure in the country. The Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity), along with National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and Nasscom, has also published a responsible AI development ‘toolkit’ to support policy and application development under the ‘IndiaAI’ initiative.

While talks around explainability and responsibility of AI models have led to questions around regulating the nascent technology in Europe, union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in Parliament on 6 April that the Centre does not plan to adopt legislation to regulate the development of AI. However, he acknowledged ethical concerns around development of AI — which include racial bias, discrimination, violation of privacy and lack of visibility into AI decision-making.

During his response, Vaishnaw added that the Centre is working on standardizing and promoting “best practices” throughout the expansion of accountable AI fashions.

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