DR. PAVAN DUGGAL,
CHAIRMAN,
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON CYBER SECURITY LAW
Today we are all into AI. When we talk of this growth through alliances in a transformative era, you have to start realizing that your approaches to growth will have to be substantially different. Because somewhere down the line AI will be an integral part of this.
So, when we start using AI for growth, for transformation, for alliances, we have to keep in mind certain broad things that are not yet existing on the ground. First, the technology is moving far, far more rapidly than law. Second, India doesn't have a dedicated law on artificial intelligence yet. But that's not new. India didn't even have a dedicated law on cyber security. The only law that India has in place is the Indian Information Technology Act 2000 which is a 26-year-old legislation. The IT Act 2000 happened when wanted to focus on coming up with a new legal framework for electronic governance, and we came up with this law. The law was one of the best in the world. India was the 12th nation in the world to have enacted a cyber-law. We based ourselves substantially on the UNCITRAL model law on electronic commerce. But those were the.com boom days, and things have now changed completely. I reiterate that what you were thinking of, or what you were doing in 2021 is absolutely obsolete today. Whether we realize it or not, while we were sleepwalking, we rode a new ‘Tiger’ and that ‘Tiger’ is AI. The tiger has started running very, very fast, and we are just about beginning to wake up from our slumber.
