MAGA+MIGA = MEGA in AI industry partnerships?

From Abhivardhan, our Chairperson

Glad to have my views on the Modi-Trump meet and the TRUST initiative agreed upon, covered by The Secretariat at https://thesecretariat.in/article/maga-miga-mega-boost-in-ai-tech-collaboration.

Sorry, that Rajya Sabha response by MeiTY had to be called out in my previous post - or else you will find random law firm people with no reading in technology law lying on the face to people that this Government is regulating AI.

Sejal Sharma has covered it well already as to the focus points of the TRUST initiative.

My understanding of ethical AI frameworks with respect to 'TRUST' is that like India's Quad partner, Australia, India & US can focus on voluntary AI frameworks, on some simple areas like knowledge management, data transfers, IP rights, incident responses, basic risk management, at a market level. As Aleksandr Tiulkanov rightly pointed it out - Microsoft along with AWS has already standardised its own internal adoption of ISO 42001. So yeah, there is scope for India and US markets to keep up.

In short, as I have believed, you don't need regulations to make AI governance work. Our position at the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law has been consistent that we should enable better market practices in the AI & analytics ecosystem in India.

I also look forward to INDUS-X and its evolution by focusing on the INDUS Innovation Platform. Maybe Kashish Parpiani and Kriti Upadhyaya can add more on the defence tech side of things in the comments.

What do you think?