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Policy Lessons for India from Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Act

Posted on July 2, 2022July 2, 2022 by Tech Law Forum NALSAR

[Ed Note: The following post is part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2021-22. It has been authored by Mehreen Mander, a fourth year student of NALSAR University of Law.]

Of late, the Government of India has been prioritizing the development, adoption and promotion of Artificial Intelligence. In 2018, substantial funding was allocated to the national program for artificial intelligence. Many Union Ministries are also making great leaps in the field of AI. In 2017, the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry set up an AI Task Force which, in its report, hailed the potential of AI to be a solution to many socio-economic problems across ten identified sectors. Furthermore, the Union Ministry of Electronic and Information Technology set up four committees to prepare a roadmap for the National Artificial Intelligence Programme.

Principled Artificial Intelligence: Adopting the Principle of AI Accountability and Responsibility in India

Posted on December 24, 2020December 24, 2020 by Tech Law Forum NALSAR

[This post is authored by Shikhar Aggarwal, a third year student at National Law University, Delhi.]

This article covers the need for, and rationale behind, the concept of principled Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). It explores the broad contours of the ethical principle of AI responsibility and accountability, analysing how it may be adopted in India. While tort law and product liability may hold the human element behind AI liable for harms caused, the existing frameworks are insufficient for redressing harms caused by autonomous technologies.

Criminal Liability of Artificial Intelligence (Part II)

Posted on December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 by Tech Law Forum NALSAR

[Shubham Damani is a second year student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. This two-part post was the winning entry in the Ab Initio Essay Writing Competition hosted by the NALSAR Student Law Review. Part 1 can be found here.]

Previously, the author had discussed a framework which would help impose liability on Artificial Intelligence in in various situations. This post continues the discussion, with an examination of the kind of liability to be affixed and what a workable regulatory framework would look like.

Criminal Liability of Artificial Intelligence (Part I)

Posted on December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 by Tech Law Forum NALSAR

[Shubham Damani is a second year student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. This two-part post was the winning entry in the Ab Initio Essay Writing Competition hosted by the NALSAR Student Law Review. Part 2 can be found here.]

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
Stephen Hawking

Algorithm Based Systems and the State: A Brief Inquiry

Posted on November 13, 2020November 13, 2020 by Tech Law Forum NALSAR

[Ed Note: The following post is part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2020-21. It has been authored by Harsh Tripathi, a second year student of NALSAR University of Law.]

Picture this: A computer software, running on AI-based algorithms, has been deployed to scrutinize housing applications. However, the applications filed by the members of a particular community or people with a particular sexual identity are constantly rejected while most allocations are being made to the members of a different community.

Online Dispute Resolution and the Role of Artificial Intelligence: A General Perspective

Posted on August 30, 2020November 1, 2020 by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR

[This post has been authored by Samarth Srivastava, a 3rd year student at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.]

In the 21^st Century, almost all routine, manual jobs like manufacturing and driving may become automated. Simultaneously, the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to grow, and these changes will be felt in the legal sector as well. In 2016, a report by Deloitte UK estimated that 39% per cent of jobs in the legal sector may be automated in the next ten years and that the industry will undergo profound reforms.[1] One field in which AI has had a significant impact recently is Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), specifically when disputes are filed and resolved online (hereafter ODR). With respect to ODR, AI has made the resolution process faster by making the filing of claims more convenient, and by improving the process of human decision-making.

Examining Artificial Intelligence and Privacy in the light of COVID-19

Posted on May 13, 2020November 1, 2020 by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR

[This post has been authored by Suvam Kumar, a 3rd year student at National Law University, Jodhpur.]

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the frailty of mankind’s societies and systems. In spite of tremendous progress made by humans in several fields of life, we are rendered helpless by the rapid and uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus. In these crucial times, the role of Artificial intelligence (“AI”) becomes very important and countries like China, USA, Canada, Australia, and India have leaned on AI to fight the pandemic. The use of AI has also been approved by the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) which has emphasized the role of AI as a panacea to fight this pandemic. However, the widespread use of AI is not without its own challenges and risks. There are serious concerns regarding the application of AI in the health sector especially during a pandemic like COVID-19; however, they can be mitigated by utilizing a legal regime that regulating AI effectively and conscientiously.

Artificial Intelligence as an Inventor: Introducing a New Patent Paradigm in India

Posted on May 9, 2020July 6, 2022 by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR

[This post has been authored by Lavanya Jha (West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata) & Shreya Jha (Amity Law School, Delhi).]

The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) was coined by American computer scientist John McCarthy during the Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1956. It was understood as a system of solving complex problems through reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, navigation, natural language processing, and perception. The shared conception regarding AI has been that it is a method of data processing, wherein the lack of involvement of a processor allows it to have an independent “mind”. Therefore, a processing device like a digital computer through which AI related tasks are accomplished can be viewed as a fundamentally detached, objective observer whereas intelligent behavior can be viewed as a determinate set of independent elements. AI’s primary features can be characterized as unpredictability, rationality, independence, efficiency and accuracy, thereby allowing it to create “patentable” inventions.

Protection for non-expressive use in India

Posted on January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR

This post has been authored by Unmekh Padmabhushan, a final year student of National Law University, Jodhpur.

Machine learning is the process by which a piece of software is able to expand upon its capabilities and knowledge in a self-driven manner without any significant human input. This technology has been used, for example, in disaster warning systems and in driverless cars. Another scholarly use of such technology allows robots to derive patterns and significant correlations from enormous databases of texts in a manner impossible for human beings. This has led to led to an explosion in the ability of those working in the field of the humanities to analyse data like their natural sciences counterparts have done for years. [1]

Welcoming The Era of Technology Friendly Laws in India

Posted on January 2, 2020November 1, 2020 by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR

This brief introduction to regulation of autonomous vehicles has been authored by Khushi Sharma and Aarushi Kapoor, second year students of Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU), Raipur. [Ed. Note: This article was written before the 2019 Personal Data Protection Bill had been made public. Click here for the new Bill.]

India being the 7^th largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in the year 2017-18, coupled with its automobile sector which is the 4^th largest in the world, are key factors driving India’s economic growth. Technological advancement is both a cause and effect of this growth. Innovative minds rule India and the world today to such an unimaginable extent that the very idea of acar running by itself with onejust sitting back and relaxing, now seems a reality. The debut of driverless vehicles in India was at Defexpo 2016 in New Delhi where Novus Drive, a driverless shuttle was introduced. However, a recurring question is ‘Are we really ready yet?’