‘Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Youth’ program launched
Part of: GS-Prelims and GS-II – Welfare Schemes & GS-III – Artificial Intelligence
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Recently, the Ministry of Electronics and IT has launched a National Program for the youth– Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Youth.
The government has also launched India’s National Artificial Intelligence Portal.
Key takeaways
It is designed to reach out to students from Government schools pan India and provide them with an opportunity to become part of the skilled workforce in an inclusive manner.
It aims to help reduce the skill gap, while enabling youth to create meaningful social impact solutions.
It also intends to provide a platform for relevant AI skill-sets and access to required AI tool-sets to make youth digitally ready for the future.
It is open to students of class 8th to class 12th from Central and State government-run schools (including KVS, NVS, JNV) from across the country.
It will be implemented in a phase-wise manner.
In its first phase, each State will nominate 10 teachers as per the eligibility criteria.
National Artificial Intelligence Portal
It has been jointly developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM).
It will work as a one stop digital platform for sharing of resources such as articles, startups, investment funds in AI etc.
