2nd India-France AI Policy Roundtable
Roadmap for the AI Action Summit 2025
11th February 2025
Location: TBC
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As AI advances at an unprecedented pace, addressing challenges is critical to fostering innovation and ensuring equitable global development.
India's proactive role in shaping the future of AI is evident in its active participation in global initiatives, including hosting the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) ministerial meeting and emphasizing equitable AI development during its G20 presidency in 2023. India's significant contributions to drafting UNESCO's recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and its use of multilateral platforms like ASEAN, G42, and the Internet Governance Forum further reflect its commitment to responsible AI governance.
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Objectives
The roundtable aims to align national positions on global AI governance to create a unified framework reflecting global preferences. Key goals include For Internal Circulation only Version 2.2 Dated 16/01/2025 establishing a scientific consensus on AI technologies, promoting open technical solutions to prevent fragmentation, harmonizing existing efforts around common terminologies and risk inventories, and enabling demonstrable self-regulation for responsible AI use. Critical issues such as deepfakes, cybersecurity, intellectual property rights, and AI bias will also be addressed.
Understanding AI Technologies and Implications
Enhancing understanding of AI technologies and their implications for the workplace, training, and education. Creating knowledge exchange avenues for AI foresight, assessing risks to consumers and society, and focusing on AI implementations that boost productivity and skill development while aligning with privacy and security values will be key discussion points.
Addressing Digital Divide and Market Concentration
Addressing the digital divide and AI market concentration risks to foster innovation and maximize AI's potential. Ensuring equal AI access for all, including companies, startups, researchers, and students, while promoting fairness, human-centered values, and inclusive innovation. Engaging the industry to drive voluntary commitments on transparency and baseline commitments for widely deployed systems will also be emphasized.
Common and Open AI Infrastructure
Developing strategies for a common and open AI infrastructure to enhance access to data and computing capacity. Discussions will focus on promoting AI accessibility, cost-effective models, and structured datasets. Establishing an AI incident database and ensuring transparency, accountability, and safety in AI systems through a lifecycle approach will be key objectives.
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in AI
Emphasizing cultural and linguistic diversity in AI development to ensure equitable access and growth. The discussion will promote inclusivity and fairness in AI initiatives and create spaces to highlight diverse cultural and linguistic contributions, fostering an inclusive AI ecosystem that values different perspectives.
Sustaining AI Innovation and Addressing Resource Needs
Examining economic and technological tools essential for sustaining AI innovation while addressing resource needs such as skilled labor, quality data, and computing capacity. Focusing on the environmental impact of AI to ensure sustainable development and promoting inclusive and sustainable innovation for long-term digital governance.
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Event Schedule
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Feb 11
2025
The India-France AI Policy Roundtable, on the sidelines of Technology Dialogue 2025, will serve as a platform for discussions leading up to the 2025 AI Action Summit. It aims to deliberate on key policy positions regarding global AI development and explore opportunities for synergy between India and France.
The roundtable event builds on the foundation of the 25-year India-France Strategic Partnership, a collaboration rooted in shared democratic values and a mutual dedication to leveraging technology for sustainable development. The declaration of 2026 as the India-France Year of Innovation further highlights the two nations' collective commitment to advancing technological solutions, including AI, to meet global challenges. By uniting their expertise and vision, both nations aim to foster a global AI ecosystem that prioritizes ethics, inclusivity, and sustainability.
The participation of leading researchers, policymakers, and industry representatives from India and France in the roundtable further reinforces their dedication to leveraging AI for the benefit of humanity.
25th January 2025
12:45 PM - 02:15 PM
12:45 PM - 02:15 PM
The roundtable will be held at the Council Chamber, IISc, Bengaluru
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French Participation
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Indian participation
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Founder, Aapti Institute
French Participation
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11th February 2025
Team
Organising Team
Organising Team Member
Mr. Ankit Bose
Technical Staff,
Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser
to the Government of India
Organising Team Member
Mr. Gurjeet Singh
Technical Staff,
Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser
to the Government of India
Organising Team Member
Dr. Shefali Uttam
Technical Staff,
Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser
to the Government of India