Article on Media, AI & Digitisation of Democracy
Released by the Vice President of India
and
Minister for Information & Broadcasting
and
Supreme Court Judge, Chairperson Press Council of India
Media & the Digitisation of Democracy in the
Age of AI
AI tools like Deepfakes masquerading as humans on digital platforms can cause serious harm and lead to a breach of societal trust – specially during major elections across the world in 2024
Mapping the importance of DATA
4IR Emerging technologies are all founded in data.
Data is the new oil.
We Educate. Empower and Enlighten on the ethical use of data
Data Sovereignty
As humans increasingly lead 3 Lives – Professional (Public), Private (Personal) and Digital (Online) : it is crucial that people have ownership and control of their data
AI Data Colonisation?
With AI technological Models concentrated in a handful of companies and countries (mostly western), there is fear that vast amounts of oral/native traditions and knowledge systems maybe lost, specially in the Global South as the world rapidly digitalises
Tech Black Box
Most digital platforms are black box’s for global citizens even though they impact them profoundly and ever more increasingly across life. It is important to open up tech black boxes and take a peak at their logical structures and functional commands
(Black box means the user does not understand the inner workings, logical programming of the technology)
AI Tools
Mapping the Top AI tools in use
ChatGPT
Open generative large language model (LLM)
Midjourney
Text to image tool built in Discord
Runway
Text to video tool in real-time
Perplexity
AI search engine for research
Eleven Labs
Text to speech and Voice Cloning tool
Jasper
Copilot for enterprise marketing teams
Meta Llama
Large language model that leverages public datasets
Rewind AI
Personalized AI powered by everything you’ve seen, said, or heard
Podcast AI
AI audio recording and editing
Whisper
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) System
Claude
LLM based AI assistant for tasks
Writesonic
Create SEO friendly content
United Nations ITU WTSA and IMC 2024
International Telecommunication Union, UN – World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly
India Mobile Congress
A New Roadmap
The role of Artificial Intelligence in building a New India
NEP 2020
Generating Societal Debate on
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
and their unregulated use in warfare
