Access the job posting PDF on MeitY’s website: [ Original link | Archived ]
We missed this earlier: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)’s Digital India Corporation (DIC) was hiring a Director for its IndiaAI Safety Institute to work under the IndiaAI Mission, according to a job advertisement published by DIC on May 19, 2026. The single position was to be filled on a contract/consolidated basis, with the posting based in New Delhi. The last date for applications was June 2, 2026.
This development came amid the government’s deliberations on formulating new AI regulation through possible upcoming stakeholder consultations.
Explore more on what Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said about new AI laws here, and what MeitY Secretary S Krishnan said here.
What is IndiaAI Safety Institute? The IndiaAI Safety Institute is one of the bodies proposed under the AI Governance Guidelines released in November 2025. Under these guidelines, the Institute is expected to test and evaluate AI systems for risks and advise policymakers on AI safety and governance issues. You can read more on Page 38 of the AI Governance Guidelines. Access the PDF here: [Original link | Archived at MediaNama | MediaNama Explainer].
In October 2024, IndiaAI selected eight Responsible AI research projects under its Expression of Interest (EoI) for the Safe and Trusted AI Pillar, from over 2,000 proposals. These include:
- Machine Unlearning — Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur — “Machine Unlearning in Generative Foundation Models”
- Synthetic Data Generation — Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee — “Design and Development of Method for Generating Synthetic Data for Mitigating Bias in Datasets; and Framework for Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning Pipeline for Responsible AI”
- AI Bias Mitigation Strategy — National Institute of Technology, Raipur — “Development of Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Bias Mitigation in Health Care Systems”
- Explainable AI Framework — Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune, in partnership with Mindgraph Technology Pvt. Ltd. — “Enabling Explainable and Privacy-Preserving AI for Security”
- Privacy-Enhancing Strategy — Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in partnership with IIT Dharwad, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, and the Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) — “Robust Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Models”
- AI Ethical Certification Framework — Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, in partnership with the Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) — “Nishpaksh: Tools for Assessing Fairness of AI Models”
- AI Algorithm Auditing Tool — Civic Data Lab — “ParakhAI: An Open-Source Framework and Toolkit for Participatory Algorithmic Auditing”
- AI Governance Testing Framework — Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in partnership with the Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) — “Track-LLM: Transparency,…
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