OPENAI HIRES FIRST EMPLOYEE IN INDIA

ChatGPT-parent OpenAI has appointed Pragya Misra as its policy affairs and partnership head in the country, people in the know said. Misra, who is currently working with Truecaller as its director of public affairs, is expected to join OpenAI by the month-end. In her earlier role, Misra was managing communications for WhatsApp.

With this, OpenAI has recruited its first employee in India and is looking at further expanding its team, industry executives said.

OpenAI’s move to first recruit a policy head has come at a time when the government is also working on regulations around artificial intelligence. The Digital India Act (DIA) is in the works and will also touch upon the aspects to regulate new age technologies from the prism of user harm.

Lately, in the run up to the elections, OpenAI has said it is looking at elevating accurate voting information via ChatGPT, enforcing measured policies, and improving transparency.

In June last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had visited India and also interacted with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Critical issues which Altman highlighted during his visit were around deepfakes, plagiarism and how a regulatory model can be brought given that the AI landscape is constantly evolving. Lately, issues regarding biasness of generative AI platforms were also flagged by the government in India.

OpenAI competes with the likes of Google Bard and Ola’s Krutrim AI.

2024-04-19T19:21:14Z dg43tfdfdgfd