New Delhi, February 16 India has significant potential in AI, given its proven success in scalable digital infrastructure, a vast talent pool, and a robust legal framework, making the nation an ideal partner for organizations globally in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Ivana Bartoletti, Global Chief Privacy and AI Governance Officer at Wipro, said on Monday.
Wipro, she said, takes AI governance and responsibility "very seriously", and the approach of prioritizing ethics is deeply rooted in the company's values, she said.
"India has fantastic potential. A major advantage is the scalability that India has demonstrated with digital public infrastructure, including UPI... in demonstrating technological delivery at scale. This is really important because a major challenge with artificial intelligence is deployment at scale," she told
She also highlighted India's technological advantage in terms of its vast talent pool, and said that this positions the country well to compete globally in AI.
"And at the same time, the techno-legal approach, coupled with other elements, such as legal certainty and the rule of law, make India a great partner for organizations worldwide to create AI," she said.
Bartoletti noted that AI is bringing enormous advantages, and cited its transformative outcomes from advanced medical diagnostics to inclusive tools, helping children with disabilities learn and navigate.
"But at the same time, over the last few years, we've also seen the risks, and people have seen these risks. We've seen, for example, artificial intelligence used to create synthetic images and disinformation; we've seen artificial intelligence used to divide people and create echo chambers online."
"So, we have seen the negative side of all this. This is why a lot of countries around the world have equipped themselves with strategies to harness the value of AI while mitigating the risks," she said, adding that this is not an easy task given the rapid pace of AI evolution.
Moving forward, AI governance would be important, she pointed out.
"So...governance is the key point of all this, how we are really able to harness existing legislation, produce new guidelines and new soft law, hard law, when we need it...asking companies to really embed privacy, security and resilience and legal protection in the design," she added.