The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on July 20, 2023, issued a notification regarding recommendations on Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Telecommunication Sector
The salient features of the recommendations are as follows: -
• Regulatory Framework for the development of responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI)
(i) For ensuring the development of responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India, there is an urgent need to adopt a regulatory framework by the Government that should be applicable across sectors. The regulatory framework should ensure that specific AI use cases are regulated on a risk-based framework where high-risk use cases that directly impact humans are regulated through legally binding obligations
(ii) An independent statutory authority should be established immediately for ensuring the development of responsible AI and regulation of use cases in India. The authority should be designated as the “Artificial Intelligence and Data Authority of India” (AIDAI)
• Adoption of AI in the Telecom Sector:
(i) DoT should collaborate with Access Service Providers for enhancing the capability of currently deployed systems through the use of AI/ML and other new technologies, in order to analyze the data on a real-time basis for verification of the total number of mobile connections (across Access Service Providers and across LSAs) against the limit set by DoT.
(ii) DoT’s Telecom Security Operation Centre (TSOC) should deploy AI/ML and other new technologies-based tools for generating alerts to minimize network security threats
• AI Specific Infrastructure and Experimental Campuses:
(i) At least one Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence (CoEAI) should be established in each State/UT for facilitating educational institutions, startups, innovators, researchers, and other public/private entities to develop and demonstrate technological capabilities
(ii) It states that One of the CoE-AIs should establish a centralized portal to be used by all CoE-AIs. The portal should have information regarding various facilities available with individual CoE-AI, the process to access such facilities, fee structure, if any, and other relevant details
• Skill Development:
(i) DoT should collaborate with MeitY and the Ministry of Education to form a committee drawing members from these two ministries, Ministry of Skill Development, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and Industry. Challenge-based Programs and Bounty Programs.
(ii) DoT should take up with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for mandating a course on the Ethical Use of AI to students in all technical institutes. DoT should also take up with the Ministry of Education for introducing such courses/ modules in other non-technical institutes and schools starting from basic education as well
• Challenge-based Programs and Bounty Programs:
(i) It states that DoT should use the 'Digital Communication Innovation Square (DCIS)' scheme to support the startups and other organizations in holding AI/ML events such as challenge programs and bounty programs for demonstration of their ideas, collaborating with stakeholders and improvising their solutions/products. DoT should also, through IMWG, coordinate similar efforts in other sectoral Ministries/ Departments
[Press Release ID: 62/2023]
