India joins a global initiative on artificial intelligence as founding member

India joined an international multi-stakeholder initiative on artificial intelligence called the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) as one of its founding members on Monday. The USA, UK, EU, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, and Singapore are also members of the initiative. GPAI was officially proposed by France and Canada at the Biarritz Summit in August 2019, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which is supporting the initiative. GPAI will initially be comprised of four working groups focused on responsible AI, data governance, the future of work, and innovation and commercialisation, and inaugural meetings of these groups are expected in late 2020. https://twitter.com/rsprasad/status/1272518700977942528 This is the “first initiative of its type for evolving better understanding of the challenges and opportunities around AI using the experience and diversity of participating countries,” the…