‘India is producing many AI developers but very few research engineers and frontier scientists…that’s a problem’

Balaraman Ravindran wears many AI hats – on UN’s international scientific panel for AI governance & standard setting, chair of GOI’s drafting committee for India’s AI governance guidelines, head of Wadhwani School of Data Science & AI at IIT Madras. He tells Vaitheeswaran B that focus should be on delivering tangible outcomes, including shareable algorithms and tools to ensure AI systems are trustworthy.