Financing Minister Nirmala Sitharaman throughout the launch occasion of’Roadmap for AI for Viksit Bharat: An Opportunity for Accelerated Economic Growth ‘and’NITI Frontier Tech Repository’, in New Delhi, on September 15, 2025.|Image Credit: PTI[
Financing Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday (September 15, 2025)stressed the requirement for policies that promote technology development in an accountable way, especially in Artificial Intelligence (AI), instead of suppressing it.
The federal government is figured out to not just embrace AI innovations however likewise guarantee their accountable application throughout different sectors, she stated while launching the report ‘AI for Viksit Bharat: The Opportunity for Accelerated Economic Growth’.
“We do not want regulation that literally wipe out technology itself. We want regulations because we want a responsible application,” she stated after launching the report prepared by NITI Aayog in New Delhi.
“AI is a rapidly progressing, real time, dynamic thing, and therefore all of us will have to be conscious that we don’t sit back on the ethic as AI can also have its challenges,” she stated.
The difficulty not simply in tasks, however likewise in such a way in which these can be misused which can have consequences for the society, she included.
According to the report, forecasts reveal that while AI will develop numerous brand-new functions, it will likewise displace lots of existing tasks, especially in clerical, regular, and low-skill sections.
For India, the obstacle would be twofold– preparing a labor force with innovative digital and AI abilities to record brand-new chances, while concurrently making sure that those displaced are gainfully used through reskilling, redeployment, or absorption into other development sectors of the economy.
Performance gains and development should match market production to equate into development, it stated, including, India would require to at the same time deepen domestic need and safe more powerful involvement in worldwide worth chains.
This will need positioning of commercial and trade policies, especially as worldwide rulebooks progress rapidly.
It stated, the European Union’s AI Act will phase in responsibilities for general-purpose and high-risk AI systems, and brand-new climate-related trade procedures such as carbon border modifications are set to form market gain access to conditions.
Released – September 15, 2025 01:06 pm IST