Machine learning models and artificial intelligence solutions have been rapidly adopted as part of enterprise solutions and consumer products. AI tech has quickly advanced, and is now applicable for diverse and large-scale use cases. It's imperative that organizations look to ethics for guiding the tech's development, applications, and deployment in such a scenario. Such guidelines are critical when it finds application in sectors like education, enterprise solutions for healthcare, justice, public welfare, etc. CIOs believe that it's essential that AI tech and application be transparent and trustworthy as they are widely implemented at both enterprise and consumer levels. Very few of them are comfortable with enterprises that deploy AI solutions for interaction.

The country's premier think tank Niti Aayog and Microsoft India have signed a partnership to deploy artificial intelligence based solutions across various sectors such as agriculture and healthcare. According to the agreement, Microsoft India will support Niti Aayog by combining the cloud, AI, research and its vertical expertise for new initiatives and solutions across several core areas including agriculture and healthcare and the environment. Microsoft will also accelerate the use of AI for the development and adoption of local language computing, in addition to building capacity for AI among the workforce through education, the company said in a statement. Amitabh Kant, CEO - NITI Aayog said that for our country, the power of Artificial Intelligence needs to be brought to bear in sectors like healthcare, education, environment and agriculture, which are important for the inclusive development of India. "Simultaneously, we should utilize the power of AI to build understanding of the different regional languages prevalent in India."