Why the Indian Bid to Make GPAI an AI Regulator is Unpreprared
- Abhivardhan

- Jul 3, 2024
- 13 min read
Updated: Nov 16

India's recent proposal to elevate the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) to an intergovernmental body on AI has garnered significant attention in the international community. This move, while ambitious, raises important questions about the future of AI governance and regulation on a global scale. This brief examines and comments upon India's bid to enable the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence as an AI regulator, with special emphasis on the Global South outlining the key challenges associated with GPAI, MeITY and the AI Landscape we have today.
India's Leadership in GPAI
India, as the current chair of GPAI, has been instrumental in expanding the initiative to include more countries, aiming to transform it into a central body for global AI policy-making. The GPAI, which started with 15 nations, has now expanded to 29 and aims to include 65 countries by next year.


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