Two Rajya Sabha MPs are set to introduce three private member bills to regulate AI ecosystem in the country and ensure that it does not eat up the jobs of the people indiscriminately.
CPI floor leader P Sandosh Kumar's 'The National Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Authority Bill, 2024' and Trinamool Congress MP Mausam Noor's 'The Workforce Rights (Artificial Intelligence) Bill, 2023', and 'The Deep Fake Prevention and Criminalization Bill, 2023', are listed for the introduction in Rajya Sabha on Friday afternoon.
Noor's bill on Rights of Workforce states that employers must obtain "explicit and informed consent" from employees before implementing AI technologies that directly impact their rights or work.
The bill says that the government should take measures to bring transparency in the use of AI within the workspace. Employees must also have the option to refuse tasks solely based on AI-generated processes if for them it violates their rights or ethical standards, it says.
According to the bill, the government must design an "equality impact assessment," ensuring fairness, non-discrimination, and compliance with established regulations. Employees should be provided with proper training to adapt to AI technology.
Kumar's bill wants the proposed National Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Authority to develop a comprehensive policy to identify key challenges of AI including privacy, bias, misinterpretation challenge, and employment loss challenges.
According to it, the Authority must have powers to inquire into complaints about the deprivation of rights of workers as a result of replacing human labour with AI and act as a national-level grievance redress mechanism in matters of AI, deep fakes, and machine learning.
Noor's bills suggest the formation of a National Deep Fake Mitigation and Digital Authenticity Task Force to evaluate the prevalence of deep fakes affecting the citizens, businesses in the country, and the functioning of the Union and state governments, as well as the influence of digital forgery and deep fakes on civic participation, including the electorate.
The bill says that there should be an evaluation of the possibility of a visual protection feature, similar to the one deployed by streaming apps, where without consent from the individual for screenshots, the screen turns black.
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