CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Responsible AI for Social Empowerment (RAISE 2020) virtual summit will be a Global Artificial Intelligence summit to be organized by the Government of India in partnership with Industry & Academia. It will be inaugurated by the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on October 5, 2020 at 7 PM.

Detailed explanation-2: -RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education) is a new MIT-wide initiative headquartered in the MIT Media Lab and in collaboration with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MIT Open Learning.

Detailed explanation-3: -NITI Aayog has the twin mandate to oversee the adoption and monitoring of the SDGs in the country and promote competitive and cooperative federalism among States and UTs. The task at hand for NITI Aayog is not just to periodically collect data on SDGs but to proactively realise the goals and targets.

Detailed explanation-4: -This culminated in 2021, with the release of a two-part approach paper, identifying principles for responsible design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in India, and setting out enforcement mechanisms for the operationalisation of these principles (RAI principles).