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AI governance, safety and ethics

How artificial intelligence is governed: national and international rules, safety and the risks of frontier models, deepfakes, copyright, bias, liability and autonomous weapons. Prelims has asked about the AI Action Summit in Paris.

UPSC has asked

Prelims 2025: the AI Action Summit held in Paris

Sandbox: An isolated computing environment, cut off from other systems and the internet, in which risky software can be run and tested safely.

Risk based regulation: Rules scaled to the harm a technology could cause, so the strictest duties fall on the riskiest uses.

Conformity assessment: The process of showing that a product meets legal standards before it is put on the market.

Watermark: A hidden, machine readable signal embedded in content to show that a machine generated it.

Synthetically generated information: Audio, image or video artificially or algorithmically created or altered so that it appears real and is likely to be taken for a real person or a real event.

Metadata: Data carried alongside a file that records where it came from and how it was made.

Jailbreak: A method of bypassing an AI model's safeguards.

Covered frontier model: Under the US order, an advanced model that qualifies for voluntary pre release government testing.

Risk scoring: Using AI to assign a score estimating the probability that a person will offend, reoffend or fail to appear in court.

Non derogable: In Indian constitutional usage, reserved for rights that cannot be suspended even in an emergency.

Data sovereignty: A country seeking control over data originating within its borders.