India’s View on AI Regulation
AI regulation it is a broader question relating to Technology, Ethics, and Social Impact. This question is very much related to the issue of global governance in the realm of use of new technologies. As there is no single regime to control the ethical use of the growing new technologies, it may emerge as another crisis after global pandemics and cyber attacks. Today our technological leaders are facing a series of ethical issues and hence the main topics of debate at past and future summits of AI. The main question is about our ethical failure to control these AI agents. We have seen many resignations from the board members and tech-team of AI companies. As of now the world has not reached a consensus on what is the red line for the development of Generic AI. Our engineers and scientists themselves cannot decide how it is going to be used for the benefit of humanity. The misuse of technology is very much possible and we must therefore frame rules and regulations to control the use of AI.
As of now it's an unregulated domain where we are allowing probabilistic systems into high-stakes domains (such as the health sector) without clear liability frameworks. But unlike past technologies, AI does not simply execute human commands; it optimizes, predicts, and decides. This shift from tool to agent is the root of its ethical gravity. Therefore the main question our policymakers face today is Who is accountable when AI causes harm? If a self-driving car kills a pedestrian, or an LLM generates defamatory content, the corporate entity often deflects liability by calling it a “known limitation” or “user error.”
Our thinking is that legal personhood for AI is a distraction. The law must assign strict liability to the entities that deploy AI in critical functions—hospitals, banks, platforms. If a human would be sued, an organization should not escape accountability by hiding behind an algorithm. However, we should be open to new ideas and debates on this issue, as there could not be just one standard for the whole world.
In india’s case, our scale itself is our biggest leverage in the popular AI domain field. India is digitizing faster as a fastest growing economy. Our UPI, Aadhaar, and nearly a billion connected citizens create the world’s largest sandbox for applied AI. So you cannot build general intelligence without testing it on complexity—India offers that. Hence I propose that our government mandates that citizen data stays local, and all the computer stack must also localize. Our data must be saved in India. It should be shared for research and humanitarian purposes with complete oversight of our government and citizen representatives. In other words, India is no longer asking for a seat at the table. It is building a different table. India isn’t entering the AI race—it’s repositioning the board. The architecture of global AI power is already being rewritten.
On the other hand, there is growing concern in India and also in many other global south nations that whose values are encoded as today’s popular? Today’s AI models reflect the linguistic and cultural data they are trained on—overwhelmingly English, Western, and internet-sourced. A “universal” AI is actually a narrow mirror of specific worldviews. Everyone still talks about “AI hubs” as if Silicon Valley, London, or Beijing still define the map. Therefore at the upcoming AI Impact Summit in New Delhi India is not just a photo opportunity. It is a recognition of the importance of the world's largest mass data which will decide our destiny. At this AI Impact Summit, the CEOs of Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA, DeepMind, Anthropic, Mistral, Microsoft, Adobe, Accenture, Qualcomm, and Cloudflare are all going to listen to our concerns and take it seriously. By hosting the AI Impact summit 2025 in New Delhi, India has shown its seriousness for our data sovereignty and concern for security of the same.
In conclusion, let me say that contemporary India is a confident, civilizational state on its own transformative journey, peacefully seeking with the nations of the World, a stable and mutually respectful partnership to shape our shared prosperity and peace.
