India must set its own artificial intelligence regulation: Experts

Experts and advocacy groups in India are looking at the EU with admiration for its efforts; however, they believe India should adopt its own set of regulations

Even as India debates how artificial intelligence (AI) ought to be regulated, the European Union (EU) has taken the first definite step toward governing it. On Wednes­day, the European Parliament approved the AI Act, which will now go for approval to the European Council.

In India, however, experts believe the country will be required to evolve its own set of regulations.

The EU has taken a risk-based approach, which basically means greater restrictions on the use of AI where the risk is higher. It has clarified what is not allowed at all and what will invite stricter scrutiny. Compa­nies such