AiACT.IN
AiACT.IN
India's first privately proposed Artificial Intelligence regulation, authored by Abhivardhan.
Version 5.0, April 3, 2025 [Latest]
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Our Founder, and Managing Partner, Abhivardhan had drafted this private AI bill, with the intent to educate the Indian AI ecosystem about the impact of AI regulation, in a larger Indian context, wherein the Indian AI ecosystem is still building itself up.
AIACT.IN, India's inaugural privately proposed artificial intelligence regulation bill, garnered significant appreciation across multiple sectors of India's technology and policy ecosystem. The initiative received its strongest endorsement from the technology and business communities, with stakeholders recognizing its educational value in fostering democratic discourse around AI standardization and regulation in India's developing AI landscape. The bill's foundational support came from Sanjay Notani, former President of the Advisory Council of the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law, who had encouraged Abhivardhan to draft comprehensive AI regulation since 2021, ultimately catalyzing the bill's first version in November 2023.
In the August 2024 International Law and Technology Conference organised by the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, Justice M Sundar, Judge, High Court of Madras (as of August 2024) had also appreciated this effort.
India AI Regulation Landscape 101
This is a simple regulatory tracker consisting all information on how India is regulating artificial intelligence as a technology, inspired from a seminal paper authored by Abhivardhan and Deepanshu Singh for the Forum of Federations, Canada, entitled, "Government with Algorithms: Managing AI in India’s Federal System – Number 70".
We have also included case laws along with regulatory / governance documents, and avoided adding any industry documents or policy papers which do not reflect any direct or implicit legal impact.
This sankey diagram (created as of October 2025) below gives a picture of India's AI Governance Landscape since 2000 until now.