Responsible use of AI in public sector applications requires engagement with various technical and non-technical areas such as human rights, inclusion, diversity, innovation, and economic growth. The book covers topics spanning the technological socio-economic spectrum including potential of AI/ML technologies to address social and political inequities, privacy enhancing technologies for datasets, friction less data sharing and data stewardship models, regional/geographical inequities in extraction and so forth.

Features:

• Focuses on technical aspects of responsible AI in the public sector.
• Covers a wide range of topics spanning the technological socio-economic spectrum.
• Presents viewpoints from the public sector agencies as well as from practitioners.
• Discusses privacy enhancing technologies for collecting, processing and storing datasets, and friction.
• Reviews frameworks to identify and address biased AI outcomes in the design, development and use of AI.

This book is aimed at professionals, researchers and students in artificial intelligence, computer science and engineering, policy makers, social scientists, economists, and lawyers.

Abhishek Singh is a distinguished officer of the 1995 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), currently serves as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. With nearly three decades of experience in governance, policy formulation, and administration, he specializes in leveraging technology to enhance governance and public service delivery. As Additional Secretary, he holds responsibilities including Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, Cybersecurity, and Digital Skilling with additional charge of CEO of IndiaAI Mission.

Balaraman Ravindran heads the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence and Centre for Responsible AI at IIT Madras, the leading interdisciplinary AI research centre in India. He is the Mindtree Faculty Fellow and Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras. He is the No.1 Deep Reinforcement Learning Expert, and among top 3 Machine Learning Experts in India. He has been elected as ACM Distinguished Member (2021) for his significant contributions to computing. He has been recognized, in 2020, as a Senior member of AAAI (Association for Advancement of AI) for his long-standing contributions to AI. He is also the Co-director of the Prathap Subrahmanyam Centre for Digital Intelligence, Secure Hardware and Architecture (PSC-DISHA) and the Reconfigurable and Intelligent Systems Engineering (RISE) group at IIT Madras.