The government had invited proposals under the “Safe and Trusted AI” pillar of the IndiaAI Mission, which aims to implement responsible AI practices
The IndiaAI Mission has selected eight proposals from various educational and research institutions to further the development of safe and trusted AI technologies in India. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) announced on October 16 that these projects were chosen from over 2,000 submissions by organisations across the country.
The government had invited proposals under the “Safe and Trusted AI” pillar of the IndiaAI Mission, which aims to implement responsible AI practices. This includes developing safety tools, frameworks, self-assessment checklists, and governance structures to ensure AI technologies are trustworthy and unbiased.
Here are the projects that were selected:
– Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur : Focused on “Machine Unlearning in Generative Foundation Models,” this project aims to enhance AI safety by enabling selective forgetting in AI systems.
– Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee : This institute is working on two important areas—developing synthetic data to reduce bias in datasets and creating a framework for mitigating bias throughout the machine learning pipeline.
– *National Institute of Technology, Raipur : Their project will focus on “Responsible AI for Bias Mitigation in Healthcare Systems,” addressing the critical issue of fairness in AI-driven healthcare applications.
– Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune , in partnership with Mindgraph Technology Pvt. Ltd.: The project will work on enabling explainable and privacy-preserving AI, specifically focusing on security applications.
– Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi , in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, and the Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC): This project will develop “Robust Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Models,” a crucial step in ensuring data privacy.
– Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi , in partnership with TEC: Their project, “Nishpaksh,” will focus on creating tools to assess the fairness of AI models, helping to ensure that AI systems do not perpetuate bias.
– Civic Data Labs : Their project, “ParakhAI,” will create an open-source framework and toolkit for participatory algorithmic auditing, enabling transparent evaluations of AI systems.
– Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham , in collaboration with TEC: Their project, “Track-LLM,” will develop transparency and risk assessment tools for large language models (LLMs), ensuring better oversight of these powerful AI systems.
The IndiaAI Mission, announced on March 7, is a significant initiative with a budget of ₹10,371.92 crore to support AI research and development across the country. The mission encompasses several components, including procuring 10,000 GPUs to support AI startups and researchers, creating an AI marketplace for pre-trained models, building an open-source dataset platform, promoting AI education, and financing AI startups.
The “Safe and Trusted AI” pillar is critical in ensuring that as AI technologies evolve, they remain ethical, fair, and transparent, preventing bias and misuse in real-world applications. These selected projects represent a step forward in the government’s vision of creating a robust and responsible AI ecosystem in India.
