Albania Government led by Prime Minister Edi Rama appointed an Virtual AI minister Diella as a formally appointed “Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence” and its 83 yet to be born children-robots as additional ministers, After Saudi Arabia which gave citizenship to a humanoid Robot, Sophia and a Polish beverage company appointed MIKA as a CEO , there is a thought that India should also attempt reducing its huge Government expenditure by replacing the Government employees substantially with AI agents.
I hope Mr Narendra Modi takes a look at this proposal.
It is noted that the Ministry of Information Technology (MeitY) may be favourably inclined to the proposal since one of its “officials” has suggested private sector companies that they should have an enterprise AI appointed as a AI-DPO to manage the compliance of DPDPA. Some Cyber Security specialists seem to agree with this possibility. (See the ET Article here).
It is time to consider putting this suggestion into practice by appointing an “Additional Secretary” to the MeitY to manage the responsibilities for DPDPA Compliance.
Under the Seventh Schedule of the DPDPA Rules, associated with Rule 23, the Government is expected to appoint an officer of the Central Government in the MeitY as the Secretary in Charge for “Carrying out assessment for notifying any Data Fiduciary or class of Data Fiduciaries as Significant Data Fiduciary.”.
There is one thought that one “Corporate Official” has suggested that
MeitY may appoint an AI-Secretary for this purpose. This AI-Secretary can be an “Agentic AI” which can log into a company’s network, make a thorough analysis of the Company’s personal data collection and the risk profile presented by its activities and declare whether an organization is a “Significant Data Fiduciary” or not. Since this will be an assessment by the Government it will be binding on the Judiciary at a later day if this question comes up.
Alternatively if the MeitY is endorsing the JIO compliance Management system as an “Approved DPDPA Compliance Management System”, the same system may be configured to send a report to the MeitY initially on the status of an organization as an SDF and there after periodically report the operations of the organization to the DPB or the MeitY.
Once this project succeeds, all Government departments can replace atleast 50% of their Secretaries with AI and another 75% of the employees with AI Children like the Albanian initiative.”
It is needless to say neither Naavi nor Naavi.org considers this as a desirable proposition.
Naavi has in fact suggested under DGPSI-AI framework that for every AI application there must be a designated “Human Handler” to take the responsibility for the activities and decisions taken by the AI.
However in the interest of “Free Speech” and “Freedom of Press of Naavi.org”, the proposition of the “Corporate Official”, we have published the proposal. We are also committed in the spirit of “Confidentiality” of the personal information to keep the identity of this corporate official undisclosed.
We are not also not commenting on whether this “Corporate Official” is a human or a Cyborg or a humanoid Robot like Mika or Sophia or an AI chat bot like Diella.
Request readers to be sensitive to this issue and not ask for the identity of this “Official”.
But we invite public comments on this thought which we consider is relevant in the current state of thinking of MeitY.
Naavi
