According to Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Information and Broadcasting and Railways, the potential of India’s digital stack including Aadhaar, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and DigiLocker can grow manifold with the application of artificial intelligence (AI).
He highlighted that the combination of AI and digital public infrastructure (DPI) could be a big win for India which already has the basic layer of AI within the DPI – that is quality and quantity of training data. In addition, Vaishnaw highlighted that Japan has awarded a patent to the UPI architecture.
On regulations, the minister stated that India is taking a unique techno-legal approach towards regulation rather than a tightening approach that Europe has. Meanwhile, the government has handed a series of technical projects to universities and academia to address the security and safety concerns of AI such as privacy, deepfakes, bias etc.
