SPEAKERS 2026

Prof. Krishna Deo Singh Chauhan

Jindal Law School, Jindal Global University, India

Risk, Function, and Due Diligence: Deconstructing India’s Proposed AI Framework

The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence into society underscores the urgent need for clear liability frameworks to ensure accountability and maintain public trust. Current ambiguity regarding responsibility across the complex AI value chain, spanning developers, deployers, and end-users, creates significant challenges for effective governance and grievance redressal.

This keynote analyzes the graded liability system proposed in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s ‘India AI Governance Guidelines’. This framework suggests assigning responsibility proportional to the AI system’s function, anticipated risk, and the degree of due diligence undertaken.

The discussion focuses on the prevailing issue of operational uncertainty. Without explicit legal parameters, stakeholders struggle to interpret how existing regulations, such as the IT Act, apply to autonomous systems. This lack of clarity leaves potential victims without recourse and stifles innovation through fear of ambiguous litigation. By evaluating this proportional approach, the keynote explores how establishing defined standards for transparency and auditing might replace legal gray areas with necessary predictability, ultimately assessing the framework's potential to balance harm mitigation with the responsible growth of the AI ecosystem.