The government will present the Cabinet with a Rs 10,000 crore supercomputing center proposal shortly. Chandrashekhar Rajiv

The government will present the Cabinet with a Rs 10,000 crore supercomputing center proposal shortly. Chandrashekhar Rajiv

Rajeev Chandrashekhar, the minister of electronics and information technology, said that measures to guarantee algorithmic accountability would be included in the future revisions to the IT regulations.

Rajiv Chandrashekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology

On July 23, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, the minister of state for electronics and information technology, said that the federal government will ask the Union Cabinet for permission to establish a Rs 10,000 crore supercomputing and quantum center via a public-private partnership.

At the opening of the Synopsys Chip Design Center in Noida, Chandrashekhar told reporters, "The funding amount is over Rs 10,000 crore." It is scheduled to be brought to the Cabinet for approval shortly. The Development Center for Advanced Computing (C-DAC) will construct "Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) in PPP mode with data centers in private space and public data centers."

Chandrashekhar said that the plan would also make use of C-DAC's PARAM supercomputer to increase artificial intelligence processing capacity.

A working committee of AI specialists suggested in October 2023 that the Indian government establish a computer infrastructure with 24,500 GPUs spread across 17 locations in order to foster innovation. Approximately 14,500 GPUs are suggested under the idea for high-performance storage and AI model training, with the remaining 10,000 GPUs being used for AI inference.

Chandrashekhar said that there would be notification of the information technology guidelines shortly.

According to Chandrashekhar, the regulations would include clauses that guarantee algorithmic responsibility and guard against false information (deepfakes).

"No platform should have biased algorithms or use models that are prone to blunders or bias," said Chandrashekhar. The platform will be responsible for making sure that these kinds of prejudices don't exist."

Prior to its current postponement, Moneycontrol revealed that the Digital India Bill will include measures to guarantee algorithmic accountability. The magazine was informed by sources that the measure will provide individuals the freedom to refuse to be dictated to by algorithms.