Govt releases white paper on democratising access to AI infrastructure

New Delhi: The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government on Tuesday released a white paper on democratitising access to Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

The white paper defines democratising access to AI infrastructure as making the AI infrastructure - compute, datasets, and model ecosystem available and affordable, such that it reaches a wide set of users.

It refers to empowering a wide set of users to engage with and benefit from AI capabilities. When compute, datasets, and model tooling are broadly available, individuals and institutions expand what they can do, like aiming to design local language tools and adapt assistive technologies.

The white paper has been prepared with inputs and feedback from domain experts and stakeholders, including the Niti Aayog, to foster informed deliberation and action in shaping India’s AI policy and governance landscape.

“With AI becoming central to innovation and economic progress, access to compute, datasets, and model ecosystems must be made broad, affordable, and inclusive. These resources are concentrated in a few global firms and urban centres, limiting equitable participation,” the office of the PSA said in a post on social media.