My complete presentation at Manipal Academy of Higher Education on the Ethical Use of AI in Research is now out on YouTube via The Bharat Pacific:
Here are some thoughts.
You know - whenever people classify forms of AI, legally - I realise we can do it in so many ways.
But for our clients at Indic Pacific Legal Research LLP, and even the community of the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law, we have tried to classify artificial intelligence in quite simple ways, which is what I discussed in the Manipal Research Colloquium 2025, previous week:
1️⃣ In India's first privately proposed AI bill (aiact.in), I have classified AI on 4 grounds -
(a) concept-basis - like legal rights, etc.;
(b) technical basis - AI as system, AI as infrastructure, AI as a service (SaaS), general-purpose AI or specific-purpose AI or AI as a component;
(c) commercial basis - AI as a product / a service / for-preview etc. and
(d) risks - high, low, medium and unintended - similar to the EU AI Act.
2️⃣ The same terminology has been used in the Indo-Pacific Research Ethics Framework on Artificial Intelligence Use: https://indopacific.app/product/indo-pacific-research-ethics-framework-on-artificial-intelligence-use-ipac-ai/
I hope you'd find the 40-min presentation on this topic helpful.
While making laws understandable is one requirement, we carefully crafted this classification approach so that we help businesses and researchers associating with AI grow well. Larger issues come, but at least this presentation covers some aspects.
Share this post