GSAIET is the first of its kind global summit focusing on AI and emerging tech legalities. The Global Summit on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Tech law and Governance was organised in New Delhi to discuss the cutting-edge issues pertaining to regulation and legalities concerning AI and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and quantum computing. The said global summit was organised by Artificial Intelligence Law Hub, Global Artificial Intelligence Law and Governance Institute and Pavan Duggal Associates, India’s niche technology law firm working in the section of law and technology. The said global summit was the brainchild of the summit chair and internationally renowned expert and authority on AI law and emerging technology law, Dr. Pavan Duggal.
GSAIET was addressed by various stakeholders from different sectors, all ventilating their concerns pertaining to AI, to the challenges thrown up by AI and other emerging technologies.
In his address, Dr. Rajiv Mani, the Secretary, Department of Legislative Affairs, Ministry of Law, highlighted the need for more proactive approach. He focused on self-regulation in the context of emerging technologies and AI and further stipulated that minimal enabling regulation is the way forward to ensure that technologies are not misused against nations, and societies and individuals.
In his keynote address, Dr. Rabindra Narayan Behera, Member of Parliament, talked about the need for India to have in place on an urgent basis emerging tech laws including AI laws, so that the emerging practical challenges thrown up by the legalities of AI can be appropriately addressed by the most populous nation in the world. In his keynote address, the Summit Chair, Dr. Pavan Duggal, underlined the overall current legal landscape globally on AI and emerging technology and thereafter gave his doctrine of ten legal principles which need to govern the further growth of AI law. He also highlighted his various recommendations both for the international stakeholders and also for the Indian ecosystem.
On this occasion Dr. Pavan Duggal, released his 201st book titled – ‘AGI and Law.’
The global summit was historic in as much as it came up with an outcome document, being the New Delhi Accord on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Tech Law and Governance, 2025. The said New Delhi Accord captured all the major recommendations made in different sessions of the Global Summit by the various thought leaders and would now be shared with all stakeholders globally, regionally and nationally, so that the deliberations of the summit can reach out to all respective stakeholders in the AI and emerging tech ecosystem. GSAIET has made a beginning and its deliberations will contribute to the evolving legal jurisprudence pertaining to AI law and emerging tech law.
The Global Summit was supported by the Department of Legislative Affairs, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India.
