Overview
- MeitY published the India AI Governance Guidelines on November 5, outlining a principle-based “Do No Harm” framework built around seven sutras for ethical use.
- The guidelines were drafted by a committee chaired by IIT Madras professor Balaraman Ravindran and finalized after reviewing roughly 650 public submissions under the IndiaAI Mission.
- A new governance architecture is proposed, including an AI Governance Group, a Technology & Policy Expert Committee, and an AI Safety Institute, with sectoral regulators handling domain-specific oversight.
- A phased roadmap calls for India-specific risk classification, a national AI incident reporting system, human oversight for high-risk uses, regulatory sandboxes, and expanded access to compute and data via Digital Public Infrastructure.
- Officials say no separate AI law is needed now, with existing statutes to be used; an IT Rules amendment already requires labeling of AI-generated content, and targeted legal clarifications on liability and data use may follow.