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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla connected Thursday (January 16, 2026) said that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and societal media person enhanced the ratio and effectiveness of antiauthoritarian institutions.
Observing that accelerated technological transformations were reshaping societies and governance, Mr. Birla, however, cautioned that their misuse has besides fixed emergence to superior concerns specified arsenic misinformation, cybercrime and societal polarisation.
He was speaking astatine the 28th league of Speakers and presiding officers of Commonwealth successful the historical Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan (the aged Parliament building) successful New Delhi.
The Speaker besides asserted that it was a corporate work of legislatures to prosecute earnestly with these challenges and germinate due solutions.
He underscored the increasing value of ethical AI and credible, transparent and accountable societal media frameworks successful safeguarding antiauthoritarian values.
Mr. Birla said that the usage of AI and integer technologies was steadily expanding successful the Parliament and State Legislatures successful India.
Legislative institutions are being progressively made paperless and integrated done a unified integer platform, mounting caller benchmarks successful transparency, ratio and accessibility, the Speaker added.
He said successful India’s implicit seven-decade-long parliamentary journey, ideology has been strengthened done people-centric policies and welfare-focussed legislations.
The corporate efforts of Parliament and authorities person ensured the repeal of respective (over 1500 till date) unwanted and obsolete laws and enactment of caller welfare-focused legislations, said Mr. Birla, adding that the enactment of specified laws and policies assistance India successful becoming a self-reliant and developed country.
