India commits to Ethical AI with New EoI initiative
By TIOL News Service
NEW DELHI, OCT 17, 2024: THE IndiaAI Mission has selected eight Responsible AI Projects against the Expression of Interest (EoI) floated under the Safe and Trusted AI Pillar of the IndiaAI Mission. Recognizing the need for adequate guardrails to advance the responsible development, deployment, and adoption of AI, the selected Responsible AI projects include the development of indigenous tools and frameworks, and establishing guidelines for ethical, transparent, and trustworthy AI technologies.
Promoting responsible AI through 8 strategic projects
As AI continues to permeate various sectors of society, India is committed to invest in agile mechanisms for developing indigenous governance tools, frameworks, and guidelines that are based on Indian datasets and reflect its unique challenges, opportunities, and datasets. To support this vision, IndiaAI has issued an Expression of Interest (EoI) to promote responsible AI projects across a range of critical themes. These include Machine Unlearning, Synthetic Data Generation, AI Bias Mitigation, Ethical AI Frameworks, Privacy-Enhancing Tools, Explainable AI, AI Governance Testing, and Algorithm Auditing Tools.
More than 2000 proposals were received from reputed Academic Institutions, Start-ups, Research Organisations & Civil Society. A multi-stakeholder committee was created to provide technical expertise for the evaluation of the proposals, resulting in the selection of 8 projects across various themes.
The details of the Selected Projects are given below :-
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S.No.
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Name of the Theme
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Name of the Selected Project
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Title of the Project
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Machine Unlearning
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Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur
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Machine Unlearning in Generative Foundation Models
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Synthetic Data Generation
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Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
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Design and Development of Method for Generating Synthetic Data for Mitigating Bias in Datasets; and Framework for Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning Pipeline for Responsible AI
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AI Bias Mitigation Strategy
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National Institute of Technology Raipur
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Development of Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Bias Mitigation in Health Care Systems
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Explainable AI Framework
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Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune in partnership with Mindgraph Technology Pvt. Ltd.
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Enabling Explainable and Privacy Preserving AI for Security
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Privacy Enhancing Strategy
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Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in partnership with Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi and Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC)
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Robust Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Models
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AI Ethical Certification Framework
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Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi in partnership with Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC)
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Nishpaksh: Tools for assessing fairness of AI model
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AI Algorithm Auditing Tool
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Civic Data Labs
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ParakhAI - An open-source framework and toolkit for Participatory Algorithmic Auditing
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AI Governance Testing Framework
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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in partnership with Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC)
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Track-LLM, Transparency, Risk Assessment, Context & Knowledge for Large Language Models
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Advancing India's leadership in AI through the IndiaAI Mission
This initiative aligns with the Government of India's vision of leveraging AI for inclusive growth. IndiaAI, an IBD (Independent Business Division) under the Digital India Corporation (DIC) of the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), is the implementation agency of the IndiaAI Mission, which aims to democratize AI's benefits across all strata of society, bolster India's global leadership in AI, foster technological self-reliance, and ensure ethical and responsible use of AI.
