AI Regulation in India: Through the Lens of Constitutional Ethics

As emanating technologies increase swiftly in number, posing the need for a regulatory framework to tackle the needs of the century, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a massive concern to a democratic state like India, which upholds high spirits of constitutionalism and legal ethics. Pressing issues like mass surveillance, data breaches, algorithm bias, and exploitation raise ethical concerns in safeguarding constitutional rights. These issues are often recognized as the ‘crisis of humanity.’ Evidently we are witnessing AI advancing at a fleeting pace, at the same time, constitutional interpretations progress close at hand. Furthermore, to a greater extent, trouble pertaining with regards to right to life is expected to rise. The European Union has enforced an extensive enactment by introducing the EU AI Regulation, leading to a more stringent application, whereas India has not yet come forward with a statute that governs AI except from having regulatory criterion for the AI use across different categories issuing by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The comprehended disembowel over the erosion of core human values and dehumanizing of society posed many moral challenges associated with AI and the viability of introducing a vigorous International Regulatory Framework to reign over its use. This paper explores the interception between AI and Constitutional Ethics, highlighting how AI should align with privacy, fundamental rights, individual autonomy, due process, etc. It is, indeed, necessary to take out the shadows of science and navigate mechanisms to fix accountability of any actions, no matter whether they are intended or unintended. The paper also underscores the need for policymakers to analyze and ensure the framing of rules and policies that uphold human dignity, accountability, transparency, and, primarily, a regulation that orients AI with Constitutional perspectives.