Hours after deliberation, the representatives from 28 nations and the European Union adopted the New Delhi Declaration of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence. The artificial intelligence summit is being hosted by Bharat and will chair the GPAI group in 2024. The New Delhi Declaration, unanimously adopted by 28 countries, Laid special emphasis on Risks of AI, specifically misinformation, disinformation, personal data, threats to human rights and democracy.
This adoption of the resolution comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while urging countries to work together on a global framework for AI, pointed out that artificial intelligence has the power to make or break democracies.
The declaration acknowledged the need to harness new opportunities and mitigate the risks that rise from development, deployment, and use of such technologies. It further mentioned GPAI’s role in addressing the contemporary issues related to Artificial Intelligence through applied AI projects aimed at addressing societal problems and global challenges to maximise benefits and mitigate associated risks.
Following the completion of the meeting, Minister for State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar, in a press conference stated that all the nations unanimously adopted the New Delhi Declaration, which promises to position GPAI at front of shaping AI. The declaration also focuses on increasing AI’s application in healthcare, agriculture, and other areas of concern.
MoS Chandrasekhar added that the resolution talks about including Global South nations in GPAI and also making benefits of AI available to such nations.
France’s Minister for Digital Transition and Telecommunications Jean-Noel Barrot was also present in the press conference. He stated that we too want GPAI to be an inclusive platform that is open to like-minded partners, that share the vision of human-centric AI and attachment to democracy.
Japan’s Vice Minister in Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Hiroshi Yoshida stated that it fully supports New Delhi Declaration and it also believes that GPAI should be more inclusive. Yoshida added that he wants to encourage more developing countries to join GPAI.
UK’s Minister for AI and Intellectual Property Viscount Jonathan Camrose expressed in excitement on being a part of the ministerial declaration. “GPAI makes an uniquely powerful contribution — firstly because it is inclusive, secondly because it is adaptive,” he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while inaugrating GPAI, called for a global framework for responsible development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that would enable evidence-based delivery of public services and warned of AI being abused through deepfakes, data theft, and by terrorists.
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