Representing ISAIL in UNESCO x IndiaAI x Ikigai Law Consultation on AI Readiness Assessment on June 3
From Sanjay Rohra, Chief Strategy Advisor
On June 3, 2025, ISAIL President Abhivardhan had led the ISAIL Team and their Northern India Regional Division along with Deepanshu Singh, Distinguished Expert, ISAIL Advisory Council and Kailash Chauhan, Chairperson, AI Development Committee Ajay Sharma, Distinguished Expert, ISAIL Advisory Council.
The participation was crucial in key sessions around Governance, Future of Work and other related themes, which in many breakout sessions turned out to be seriously and actively participatory.
Here are some thoughts on the event by our President, :
What was the consultation about?
There were multiple pillars around AI Readiness assessment methodologies acceped after the adoption of the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI by UNESCO.
It was fun for me to represent a small team of stakeholders for the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law along with Deepanshu Singh and Ajay Sharma from the Advisory Council and Kailash Chauhan as the Chairperson of the AI Development Committee in AI Governance and Future of Work tracks.
Here are my quick takeaways:
1️⃣ It's refreshing that the organizers invited multidisciplinary stakeholders and didn't let it be limited to be "law-firm centric" since a lot of lawyers and law firms, sorry to say but hijack the discourse in bad faith or even in good faith.
2️⃣ The moderator had asked pretty specific questions and was open to address issues around market and technical standards, public procurement, sector-specific base level guidelines and sector-agnostic regulatory/task force approach.
3️⃣ AI governance discussions are not limited to intellectual property rights and making governance high-level. I suggested as ISAIL President that governance localisation in context of AI involvement in an existing value and knowledge chain, can help in making AI governance pretty much self-regulatory since a lot of cross-border transactions would happen for instance.
AI and Law issues start with pre-AI laws and contracts, and it's high time we don't forget this.
Anyways, short meets have their own charm. Until the weather is kinder again, which it partly is, sayonara Delhi. :)