Speaking at the INET-YSI-Bennett University conference, Rajeev Chandrasekhar highlighted the legal challenges emerging in the age of AI and innovation.
Chandrasekhar stressed that the traditional legal playbook is becoming obsolete.
He also praised the government’s contributions to India’s modernisation over the last decade.
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and rapid technological advancements are creating a need for an entirely new legal framework, according to Former Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar. Speaking at the INET-YSI-Bennett University conference on Saturday, Chandrasekhar highlighted the legal challenges emerging in the age of AI and innovation.
He emphasised that today’s law students face a unique challenge as they enter an era where the legal foundations for technology are yet to be established.
Chandrasekhar stressed that the traditional legal playbook is becoming obsolete, paving the way for a fresh approach to jurisprudence. “What we know of the past, what we know about the legal playbook in the past is going to be completely obsolete. And almost from the ground up, there is going to be new jurisprudence and a new framework of laws, rights, and issues that will need to be adjudicated in the future,” he said.
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Speaking on the complexities of AI and its potential, Chandrasekhar pointed out the need for evolving legal standards to address new challenges. He explained, “And in a lot of ways, that point, if you extend and expand forward to AI, holds true for artificial intelligence, for harm, for its applications, for privacy, for who owns what on the internet, monetisation of personal, non-personal data and there is a whole school, a whole area of jurisprudence that will be explored and written in the coming years.”
Chandrasekhar called this period a transformative time. “We are living in the AI age. There is no doubt that we are in the middle of a technology and innovation revolution that is something that has never been seen before,” he remarked.
He also praised the government’s contributions to India’s modernisation over the last decade. Highlighting the nation’s progress, he said, “In the last ten years, India and for most of you who have lived and experienced India, there has been a deep tectonic transformation in India. So we know bridges have been built, roads have been built, infrastructure have been created, our economy has been modernized, the government’s own budget has tripled and quadrupled, we are the fastest growing economy in the world, we have the fastest growing digital economy in the world, our innovation economy is going to be almost a one-fourth of our GDP.”
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