The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology held a meeting on Monday to deliberate on issues related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). The committee is scheduled to present its report and recommendations during the forthcoming Budget Session of Parliament, according to its chairperson, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey.
India is set to host the AI Impact Summit in February in New Delhi, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister had earlier co-chaired the World AI Action Summit in Paris, highlighting India’s growing engagement in global AI governance and policy discussions.
Dubey stated that several countries have already introduced regulations governing artificial intelligence and that the committee is closely examining these developments. He said the panel would submit its suggestions to the government, after which a decision would be taken, with the final report to be tabled in Parliament during the Budget Session.
The committee also discussed concerns regarding the misuse of AI on social media platforms. Members across party lines praised the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for issuing a notice to social media platform X over the alleged misuse of its AI tool, Grok, for generating obscene content. Dubey noted that the committee had raised concerns about the safety of women and children, an issue that later drew wider global attention.
Officials from several ministries, including MeitY, the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, and the Ministry of Sports, presented their views before the panel during the meeting.
Separately, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi expressed gratitude to Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and MeitY for issuing a notice to X following her letter raising concerns about AI misuse on the platform. MeitY cited the platform’s failure to observe statutory due diligence obligations under the Information Technology Act, 2000, and directed it to prevent the hosting, generation, and sharing of obscene, sexually explicit, or otherwise prohibited content through AI-based services such as Grok.
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