Overview
- TRAI chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti told a COAI forum on Monday that AI can improve forecasting, resource use and fault detection but must include human oversight and the ability to intervene if automated decisions fail.
- He called on operators and tech firms to adopt responsible-AI practices such as formal risk assessments, decision logs, pre-deployment model testing and review mechanisms for high-impact systems.
- Lahoti warned AI plays a dual role in fraud by improving anomaly detection while also enabling more sophisticated scams if misused, and he urged proportionate thresholds and review for automated risk classification.
- The regulator has submitted its satellite communications, or SATCOM, recommendations to the central government and those proposals are currently awaiting a government decision.
- Industry cooperation advanced at the event when COAI and the British High Commission signed an MoU on AI, digital trust and fraud prevention, reflecting calls to coordinate telecoms, platforms, banks and law enforcement under the AI Summit framework.