Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a union minister, stated on Monday that people should not ‘overreact’ to the narrative of worry about the possibility of job loss due to generative AI, which he acknowledged as a disruption. He was addressing the media outside the third G20 Digital Economy Working Group Meeting that was taking place in Maharashtra.
When asked about cases involving purported religious conversion through online games, the minister responded that the government had already made a framework notification following a discussion in which it was resolved to prohibit three categories of games.
‘We should not overact to this fear narrative of (losing) jobs. Let’s wait and see. AI is certainly a disruption,’ according to the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology. ‘I had said in my speech today and the Government of India had repeatedly stated, our Prime Minister had stated that the partnership of countries in one future alliance around Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is harnessing the good of technology,’ he told PTI in response to a question about AI ruling the tech world, the possibility that it will eliminate human jobs, as well as how the government’s plan to regulate AI.
The cooperation of the nations also addresses the problems of injury, crime, and cybersecurity.
‘The partnership model is not only good for innovation, but it is also good to address the issues of global regulation,’ he said. The minister responded that India is a clear case study of how the political leadership and the Prime Minister have used technology to alter governance and human lives over the last nine years when asked how India’s digital success story will assist countries in the global south.
‘This has been studied by, observed by almost every country that for many years we had to stay away from digitalisation benefits because of cost and other barriers. PM Modi during the G20 presidency has made it clear that India’s STACK, India’s overall digital capabilities will be made available to any country interested in advancing its own digitization.’
‘We will do it in a manner which is an open source platform with no ownership and we will create a framework or partnership for today’s DPI and the future of DPI under one future alliance,’ he said.
Regarding claimed instances of religious conversion through online games, the minister stated, ‘The government has already established a framework after a discussion in which it has been decided that we will not allow three categories of games.’
‘First is betting, second is the games that cause harm to users while the third category is the games that are addictive (in nature). Based on these three criteria, if any game violates norms, it will be banned in India. We are actively looking into this issue,’ he said.
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