India’s Commitment to Ethical AI: 8 Key Projects Driving Responsible AI Development

India Commits to Ethical AI

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 the establishment of guidelines for ethical, transparent, and trustworthy AI technologies.

Promoting Responsible AI Through Eight Strategic Projects

As AI continues to permeate various sectors of society, India is committed to investing 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. IndiaAI has issued an Expression of Interest (EOI) to support this vision to promote responsible AI projects across a range of critical themes. These themes include Machine Unlearning, Synthetic Data Generation, AI Bias Mitigation, Ethical AI Frameworks, Privacy-Enhancing Tools, Explainable AI, AI Governance Testing, and Algorithm Auditing Tools, each playing a crucial role in the responsible development of AI.

The details of the selected Projects are given below:

S.No.	Name of the Theme	Name of the Selected Project	Title of the Project
	Machine Unlearning	Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur	Machine Unlearning in Generative Foundation Models
	Synthetic Data Generation	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee	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
	AI Bias Mitigation Strategy	National Institute of Technology Raipur	Development of Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Bias Mitigation in Health Care Systems
	Explainable AI Framework	Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune in partnership with Mindgraph Technology Pvt. Ltd.	Enabling Explainable and Privacy Preserving AI for Security
	Privacy Enhancing Strategy	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in partnership with Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi and Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC)	Robust Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Models
	AI Ethical Certification Framework	Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi in partnership with Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC)	Nishpaksh: Tools for assessing fairness of AI model
	AI Algorithm Auditing Tool	Civic Data Labs	ParakhAI – An open-source framework and toolkit for Participatory Algorithmic Auditing
	AI Governance Testing Framework	Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in partnership with Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC)	Track-LLM, Transparency, Risk Assessment, Context & Knowledge for Large Language Models

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.

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