IT ministry sets up panels for artificial intelligence roadmap

NEW DELHI: The ministry of electronics and IT has formed four committees to prepare a roadmap for the national artificial intelligence programme. The committees will be headed by IIT directors and experts from industry bodies such as Nasscom, union minister for electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad said. The four committees will be for citizen centric services; data platforms; skilling, reskilling and R&D; and legal regulatory and cybersecurity. The ministry will promote high level research in these areas, the minister said, adding: "We must learn new dimensions of AI." MeitY will also assist the government machinery to implement technologies such as AI and 3D printing, he said. It is also looking at the blockchain technology and working on developing standards and regulations around it.