GPAI’s New Delhi Declaration

• The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit announced the adoption of the New Delhi Declaration.
• India is hosting the summit and will chair the GPAI grouping in 2024.

ABOUT THE DECLARATION

• The declaration affirms the countries’ commitment to “principles for responsible stewardship of trustworthy AI, rooted in democratic values and human rights and promoting trustworthy, responsible, sustainable and human-centred use of AI.”
• The declaration agreed to collaboratively develop AI applications in healthcare and agriculture, as well as including the needs of the Global South in development of AI.
• Participating nations agreed upon using the GPAI platform to create a global framework on AI trust and safety, and make AI solutions and benefits available for all.
• It commits countries to work on mitigating “concerns around misinformation and disinformation, unemployment, lack of transparency and fairness, protection of intellectual property and personal data.”

ABOUT GPAI

• Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) is a multi-stakeholder initiative which aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice on AI by supporting cutting-edge research and applied activities on AI-related priorities.
• Launched – 2020
• It strives to work towards “trustworthy development, deployment, and use of AI”.
• GPAI is a grouping of countries in North and South America, Europe, and East Asia and consists of 29 member nations including the European Union.
  • India is a founding member of GPAI.
• GPAI has a Council and a Steering Committee, supported by a Secretariat hosted by the OECD in Paris.
• It has two Centres of Expertise–
  • CEIMIA, the International Centre of Expertise in Montreal for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Montreal and
  • INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology in Paris.
  • A third ‘expert support centre’ for AI was announced in Japan at the recent GPAI summit.