Fears that India's scaling up of AI will reproduce casteist bias, discrimination against minorities
Even if technology can be considered ‘neutral’, the databases used to train such models are biased along the country’s many faultlines.
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Even if technology can be considered ‘neutral’, the databases used to train such models are biased along the country’s many faultlines.
With a population of 1.4 billion powering the world's fifth-biggest economy, India is undergoing breakneck technological change, rolling out AI-based systems - in spheres from health to education, agriculture to criminal justice - but with scant debate on their ethical implications, experts say.
This is even as nearly 1 crore women in the state travelled for free in state government buses.
Formative predictive policing solutions in India are built on historical crime data from FIR records in the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems
Shivangi Narayan's 'Surveillance as Governance' says that the paradigm of governmental surveillance is more Kafkaesque than Orwellian.