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Govt invested in creating indigenous AI technology to address issue of bias: S Krishnan
Feb-18-2026

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Secretary, S Krishnan, has said that the government invested in creating indigenous and sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) models such as BharatGen initiative, to address bias and to ensure that India has AI systems trained primarily on Indian data. He said ‘sovereignty is a very important issue, and India needs to have AI models where nobody else has the kill switch, and it was always with us.’

According to him, a country of India's size must have control over the way AI models function. He said Initially, there was a debate over whether India should actually invest in creating indigenous or sovereign models or should it use open source models which have been created elsewhere in the world, because creating an indigenous model was felt to be expensive and time-consuming.

The secretary further said but after some discussion and debate, India went ahead and created its own AI models for certain important reasons. He said ‘first and foremost is to address the issue of bias...Making sure that we have models which are based primarily on Indian data and data which is created in a multiplicity of Indian languages. That is very critical.’  He said the second reason is India's linguistic diversity, as people would prefer to access AI in their own languages.
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