AI is increasingly becoming ubiquitous across industries. Even though there is no specific law for AI in India, lawyers are optimistic and strongly feel that India will match up with the pace of the emerging tech.
Even as artificial intelligence opens up new opportunities, experts are now looking at the legal implications of this cutting-edge technology that has started becoming all pervasive. While India is far from having a suitably defined framework to govern AI, lawyers in India feel this could change soon.
Over the past few months since the launch of ChatGPT, there has been a unanimous call for regulation of AI to protect individual rights, counter societal harm, and address issues of liability, personal data, privacy, misinformation as well as the perils of bias. “Generative AI is exciting because it can be a good co-pilot of human operations, but it also raises new legal challenges,” said Jaideep Reddy, technology lawyer at Trilegal.
Several countries have banned ChatGPT, and some are working to create legal frameworks to mitigate the risks associated with AI in general. AI-related legal issues are complex and there are numerous lawsuits against companies such as Microsoft, OpenAI, Stability AI, GitHub, and more. Some of these lawsuits are testing the boundaries of copyright law and could have a major impact on the future of generative AI. .
there could be intellectual property issues around the use and ownership of the content, Reddy said. For example, the question is whether these tools violate the rights of the authors of the work they have learned. Also, will the creators of these tools be liable for malicious content, such as defamatory or offensive statements? “Additional problems arise when generative AI tools are given the power to execute tasks autonomously after receiving a hint. Because you can write and run code yourself, it can lead to cybersecurity breaches that extend into the physical world and lead to hacking of drones or connected weapons, for example,” Reddy explains.