New Delhi, Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav on Wednesday said Generative AI is a relatively new phenomenon and a fine balance must be struck between innovation and regulation to protect social structures to ensure progress.
Speaking at a seminar of the Women Journalists Welfare Trust, the minister said while technology and AI are making life easier with transformative powers, if left without safeguards they also pose negative risks to age-old established structures. Do, and hence a new set of rules and legislations is required.
"There is a very risky side, which is affecting our society, democracy and the social structures of man, which were carefully built over decades and centuries. Many of the institutions that were meant to protect society and ensure that The way we all live together in harmony is under attack,” he said.
The minister said that despite being present in the industrial world for three decades, Generator AI in the form of AI, which can be used by a common user, is a new thing.
He said that AI creating things that are usually associated with human creativity is a completely new phenomenon and has created a new challenge.“We must build some consensus on the way forward by which society can move forward. We, in India, believe that we must have a good balance of innovation and regulation.
"We must have a very consultative process through which we come up with the final policy. We must ensure that every stakeholder is heard, understood and analyzed properly," he said.
With the advent of social media, he said, "connectivity became ubiquitous, everyone had a mobile phone, and everyone started having good data connectivity"."One of the ministers responsible for this topic in Europe told me that institutions built 400 years ago are being destroyed by social media," Vaishnav said.
The minister said that there has been a significant reduction in the cost of computing, connectivity and sensors. But it has made the Internet extremely accessible to everyone, he said.
In a way, the Internet exploded. Vaishnav said, it became very easy for anyone to offer anything, then it started creating social tension.He said the old structure was a safe harbor structure, where the onus was never placed on the Internet service provider to promote innovation in the Internet.
In the new structure, he said, millions of people are posting millions of things on the Internet. "The question is, whose responsibility should it be? That is the fundamental question."
Vaishnav further said that societies around the world, including the most liberal market-oriented, socialist as well as the most state-controlled countries, are debating the issue.
"The same questions are being asked everywhere: What should be the new regulatory regime for social media platforms, and who should take responsibility? Where should accountability lie? Who should be responsible for what is published on social media platforms?
“We have to find a solution, we have to come up with a reasonable balance,” he said.And we have to make sure that our social structures, our society and the way we want to move forward is appropriately protected."
Speaking at a seminar of the Women Journalists Welfare Trust, the minister said while technology and AI are making life easier with transformative powers, if left without safeguards they also pose negative risks to age-old established structures. Do, and hence a new set of rules and legislations is required.
"There is a very risky side, which is affecting our society, democracy and the social structures of man, which were carefully built over decades and centuries. Many of the institutions that were meant to protect society and ensure that The way we all live together in harmony is under attack,” he said.
The minister said that despite being present in the industrial world for three decades, Generator AI in the form of AI, which can be used by a common user, is a new thing.
He said that AI creating things that are usually associated with human creativity is a completely new phenomenon and has created a new challenge.“We must build some consensus on the way forward by which society can move forward. We, in India, believe that we must have a good balance of innovation and regulation.
"We must have a very consultative process through which we come up with the final policy. We must ensure that every stakeholder is heard, understood and analyzed properly," he said.
With the advent of social media, he said, "connectivity became ubiquitous, everyone had a mobile phone, and everyone started having good data connectivity"."One of the ministers responsible for this topic in Europe told me that institutions built 400 years ago are being destroyed by social media," Vaishnav said.
The minister said that there has been a significant reduction in the cost of computing, connectivity and sensors. But it has made the Internet extremely accessible to everyone, he said.
In a way, the Internet exploded. Vaishnav said, it became very easy for anyone to offer anything, then it started creating social tension.He said the old structure was a safe harbor structure, where the onus was never placed on the Internet service provider to promote innovation in the Internet.
In the new structure, he said, millions of people are posting millions of things on the Internet. "The question is, whose responsibility should it be? That is the fundamental question."
Vaishnav further said that societies around the world, including the most liberal market-oriented, socialist as well as the most state-controlled countries, are debating the issue.
"The same questions are being asked everywhere: What should be the new regulatory regime for social media platforms, and who should take responsibility? Where should accountability lie? Who should be responsible for what is published on social media platforms?
“We have to find a solution, we have to come up with a reasonable balance,” he said.And we have to make sure that our social structures, our society and the way we want to move forward is appropriately protected."
