India on Wednesday unveiled its AI Governance Guidelines, which do not propose a new law to regulate artificial intelligence but underscore the urgent need for a comprehensive review of existing statutes to identify regulatory gaps in relation to AI systems.

The framework, released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY), draws attention to significant amendments required in the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act) and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act), among others.

For example, the guidelines note that the definition of “intermediary” under the IT Act, originally meant for online platforms that transmit or host third-party content, does not adequately capture the functioning of AI-driven systems that autonomously generate or transf

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