India Joins Global Artificial Intelligence Partnership

India today has joined leading
nations including USA, UK, EU, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy,
Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore to launch the Global
Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI or Gee-Pay). GPAI is an international and multi-stakeholder initiative to guide the
responsible development and use of AI, grounded in human rights, inclusion,
diversity, innovation, and economic growth. This is also a first initiative of
its type for evolving better understanding of the challenges and opportunities
around AI using the experience and diversity of participating countries. In
order to achieve this goal, the initiative will look to bridge the gap between
theory and practice on AI by supporting cutting-edge research and applied
activities on AI-related priorities.
In collaboration with partners
and international organizations, GPAI will bring together leading experts from
industry, civil society, governments, and academia to collaborate to promote
responsible evolution of AI and will also evolve methodologies to show how AI
can be leveraged to better respond to the present global crisis around
COVID-19.
It is pertinent to note that
India has recently launched National AI Strategy and National AI Portal and
have also started leveraging AI across various sectors such as education,
agriculture, healthcare, e-commerce, finance, telecommunications, etc. with
inclusion and empowerment of human being approach by supplementing growth and
development. By joining GPAI as a founding member, India will actively
participate in the global development of Artificial Intelligence, leveraging
upon its experience around use of digital technologies for inclusive growth.
GPAI will be supported by a
Secretariat, to be hosted by Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) in Paris, as well as by two Centers of Expertise- one each
in Montreal and Paris.
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