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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
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Copyright in a machine generated work
Copy link to Copyright in a machine generated workPrelims and Mains
A copyright needs an author, and an author in Indian law is a person. That is the whole of the Copyright Office's answer when it was asked to name a machine.
- India's Copyright Office refused to name the artificial intelligence system DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) as an author.
- Under Section 2(d)(vi) of the Copyright Act the author of a computer generated work is the person who causes it to be created.
What changed
2 Sep 2026
24 Jul 2026Update
- In a case brought by a news agency against OpenAI, the Delhi High Court took the prima facie view that storing copyrighted work to train a language model falls within fair dealing, because training supplies the work to no third party.
- It took the same view of outputs produced by retrieval augmented generation. The ruling is interim.
- Fair dealing is the limited set of uses of a copyrighted work that Indian law allows without the owner's consent, such as research and reporting.
Global governance of artificial intelligence
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Governments and laboratories are arguing less about which rules to write than about whether artificial intelligence needs rules written for it at all. The blocs that answered in September answered differently.
- At the Group of Twenty the United States pressed its Carolina Principles, which urge governments to avoid artificial intelligence specific rules.
- India joined the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Leaders' Statement on the Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence, which sought stronger international cooperation and wider access to artificial intelligence resources.
- Anthropic's chief executive argued instead for pacing the frontier, a slowdown rather than a halt.
What changed
12 Sep 2026
2 Sep 2026
20 Jul 2026Update
- China launched the World AI Cooperation Organisation with 29 other countries, including Russia and Pakistan, as an alternative for developing countries to Western frameworks built around safety and ethics.