Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw today said that the Centre will issue a consultation paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the coming weeks. Speaking at the NDTV World Summit 2026, Vaishnaw said the paper will incorporate inputs from both subject matter experts and common citizens.
Vaishnaw suggested that countries developing major AI ecosystems would have to work towards a common understanding of how the technology should be assessed, even as they compete to build more capable models and applications. “The race towards innovation has to be moderated by the safety of human beings. Some principles have already been established. It has to be human first. AI has to be human-centric. It has to make sure that control over the agents, control over the models, control over the outcome that happens, and control over the processes are in human hands. There has to be some equivalent of stopping things if they go out of control. Those principles have already come up.”
“Among the top three or top four AI ecosystems in the world, countries like us will all sit together and come up with some fundamental principles by which AI has to be judged,” he said.
