Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law Technical Report Series
1 Introduction Algorithms play an important role in deciding the scope and progress of various kinds of coherent and parallel economies, which are canvassed through the global commons. Artificial intelligence ethics is an important field – which is emerging in the domain of international technology law steadily. India, one of the emerging Global South countries, is adopting newer competition legal and technology law approaches to transform its sovereign imperative and its strategic interests in the realm of global governance. This report analyses, where India requires proper and implementable competition-technology law approaches, which act in due proportionality to defend two kinds of sovereign imperatives, i.e., algorithmic & information-related. Algorithmic sovereignty simply refers to the issue of regulatory considerations in the domain of artificial intelligence ethics, where AI technologies need scrutiny, judicial and executive – both, with effective redressal and dispute resolution mechanisms. Information sovereignty alludes to the problem of data law and how India should and has been adapting and developing nuanced practices of data protection & data-related regularization frameworks. The approach of this report is clearly to provide optimistic and practical alternatives to the current legal and policy framework of algorithmic and information sovereignty in India. We are not suggesting a complete overhaul. However, we have surely suggested appropriate policy solutions wherever rendered.
How Algorithms as Agents of Information Impact Rule of Law Algorithms as the agents of information, in the context of this report, must be understood taking into consideration the lack of
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