Mumbai, May 24 (KNN) The upcoming Digital India Act (DIA) will strictly deal with misinformation and 'high-risk AI' to prevent user harm and will act as an enabler for startup innovations in the country, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.

In the second round of pre-drafting public consultations with various stakeholders on Tuesday, the IT Minister said that the first draft of the Bill is expected to be released by the first week of June.

“We are not going to regulate AI but we will create guardrails. There will be no separate legislation but a part of DIA will address threats related to high-risk AI,” he said.

In the meeting, Chandrasekhar said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is very clear that anything the government does should not cause difficulties for innovation in the startup space.

"We will be extremely sensitive to this. It is not in our intention at all to make things difficult for startups. DIA will be an enabler for startup innovations," the minister added.

The government met policy experts and other stakeholders for the second round of consultations to draft the much-anticipated DIA which is expected in the next 2-3 months.

In March, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) held the first round of pre-drafting consultations with stakeholders on the DIA that aims to catalyse India's ambition of being in the leading pack of nations that would shape future technologies.  (KNN Bureau)