‘Advance of AI creating a governance responsibility’

Artificial quality is simply a double-edged sword, and the governance nonsubjective should beryllium to sharpen the borderline of accidental portion blunting the borderline of risk, Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Centre, said connected Monday (February 16, 2026).

“Digital penetration has increased, and children are progressively exposed to AI-driven platforms. We inactive bash not afloat cognize the semipermanent effects of increasing up with AI companions and synthetic media,” helium said astatine a league astatine the ongoing AI Impact Summit.

“The request to embed child-specific safeguards and guardrails into the governance model is not a choice, but it is simply a must,” Mr. Sood said, underlining that the beforehand of AI has created a governance responsibility.

“Future procreation should not beryllium a unfortunate of today’s technology,” helium said.

Increased beingness of AI successful children’s regular lives

He besides noted that much grounds is needed to recognize however these tools interaction a child’s development, intelligence wellness and acquisition implicit time.

At the league connected ‘AI and Children: Turning Principles into Practice for Safe, Inclusive, and Empowering AI’, Mr. Sood mentioned that AI is much contiguous successful children’s regular lives done learning tools, contented platforms and antithetic models.

This creates a governance work to guarantee that children tin payment from AI’s imaginable for learning and inclusion portion being protected from harms that standard up rapidly successful the integer environment, Mr. Sood said.

“AI is simply a double-edged sword. The governance nonsubjective should beryllium to sharpen the borderline of accidental portion blunting the borderline of risk,” helium said, adding that connected the affirmative side, AI tin enactment much personalised pedagogy by helping children larn astatine their ain gait and besides supply them with timely feedback beyond schoolroom hours.

At the aforesaid time, Sood besides flagged the request to debar over-reliance connected AI tools since they tin weaken captious thinking, autarkic occupation solving and learning.