India joins global alliance GPAI to support human-centric development and use of artificial intelligence

India is now part of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), an international alliance that has been founded to realize the full potential of artificial intelligence while ensuring responsible and human-centric development and use of the technology. Several leading economies such as USA, Canada, France, Republic of Korea, Germany, UK, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, EU, Australia, Italy, and Singapore are part of GPAI or Gee-Pay.

GPAI is an international and multi-stakeholder initiative to guide the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence, grounded in human rights, inclusion, diversity, innovation, and economic growth. 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.

What the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Aims to Achieve

In collaboration with partners and international organizations, GPAI will bring together leading experts from industry, civil society, governments, and academia to collaborate to promote the responsible evolution of artificial intelligence. The collaboration also aims at evolving methodologies to show how AI can be leveraged to better respond to the present global crisis around COVID-19.

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. GPAI will also look at data governance, future of work, and innovation and commercialization.

India recently also launched the National AI Strategy and National AI Portal. Artificial intelligence is also being leveraged across various sectors such as education, agriculture, healthcare, e-commerce, finance, telecommunications, among others with inclusion and empowerment of human beings by supplementing growth and development.