Sharma: India treats AI regulation as an adaptable multi-layer framework
Sharad Sharma · $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI · Mar 15, 2025 · at 1:34:11
Sharad Sharma, co-founder of iSPIRT, details the recommended Indian AI regulatory framework, contrasting it with US and European models.
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“Our view in India is that we don't know how the ecosystem will evolve. There's a lot of unpredictability. Therefore, we must think of it as a complex adaptive system and retain the right to intervene wherever it makes sense. For some years, it may make sense to do it at the app level. Some years, it may make sense to do it At the data level, we don't know. In some cases, especially for children, it may make sense to do it at the distribution level, right? So what we are saying is that really our effort rather than bogging down on where to intervene is to create this API, this AI chain and make it visible, at least to the regulators so that they can do pointed and minimal regulation At any one point and gets the job done.”
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