#DavosBrainstorm2024: Ashwini Vaishnaw On How AI Could Impact Elections

At #DavosBrainstorm2024, Siddharth Zarabi, Managing Editor of Business Today TV, and Rahul Kanwal, Executive Director of Business Today in an exclusive conversation with Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Railways, I.T Electronics & Communication discussed on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the upcoming elections. Minister Vaishnaw expressed concerns regarding AI's influence on democracy and emphasized the need for AI platforms to be accountable for their tools. Focusing on deepfakes, he pointed out the existence of technologies capable of detecting them, and mentioned that tech companies are developing models to identify deepfakes during the upload process. Here’s an excerpt from that exclusive conversation.