At the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) has established the Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI). Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, inaugurated CeRAI. On April 27, 2023, IIT Madras held its inaugural ceremony.
As part of the launch programme, the institute held the first CeRAI workshop on responsible AI on May 15, 2023. The event’s keynote speech was given by Abhishek Singh, MD and CEO of Digital India Corporation and President and CEO of NeGD.
At IIT Madras, there is a virtual interdisciplinary research centre called the Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI). The centre aspires to become a world-class research hub for basic and applied responsible AI research, having a direct bearing on the deployment of AI systems in the Indian ecosystem.
The centre wants to do research in the fields of ethical and responsible AI and establish itself as the national authority for formulating rules and regulations that will increase the accountability, transparency, and responsibility of deployable AI models and systems.
Currently, CeRAI includes three main areas of research:
Making AI comprehensible.
AI safety and society.
The centre is working on research projects related to a wide range of subjects, including AI and ethics in the Indian context, ethical and explainable AI in FinTech applications, explainable GI endoscopy procedure assessments, human-in-the-loop, legal AI, and more.
The centre’s director will be Balaraman Ravindran, Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Madras, RBCDSAI, IIT Madras. Through strategies on explainable AI, interpretable AI, and human-in-the-loop learning, the centre focuses on making AI more intelligible and interpretable.
