SC ruling on privacy first step to make India ready for artificial intelligence: Meity official

The Supreme Court upholding privacy as a fundamental right is the first step to make India ready to adopt artificial intelligence and the government has already started working on the framework for the same, according to officials.

"When we are talking about whether we are ready to get into this whole artificial intelligence (AI) journey. I think we are ready and we are looking at it and going there in stages. I think the first stage is where the Supreme Court has said that privacy is a fundamental right (and) that should be kept in mind," Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) Joint Secretary Gopalakrishnan S said at a FICCI event here on Wednesday.

A panel comprising government officials and industry experts participated at the event.

All big companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google are biggest consumers of AI and at the same time their usage of technologies leads to concerns as well, Gopalakrishnan added.

"People are concerned when it is something like Google or Facebook but when it