New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- Last week, the ministry of electronics and information technology released the India AI Governance Guidelines, a proposed framework for governing artificial intelligence (AI). As a member of the committee that had been tasked with drafting the final report, it is gratifying to see the recommendations become the basis on which AI will be governed in the country.

At the outset, it is important to clarify that this document sets out the committee's recommendations on how the country should approach AI governance. It is up to the government to review them and take the steps it thinks appropriate for implementation.

The committee unanimously agreed to base the guidelines in the same seven principles that had been propos...