The Centre has selected five innovative projects to strengthen the safety, fairness, and reliability of artificial intelligence under its Safe & Trusted AI program.
Announced by IndiaAI, the implementation agency under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), these projects aim to tackle deepfake threats, reduce gender bias in AI, and improve testing of AI systems.
Chosen from over 400 proposals submitted after a nationwide call in December 2024, the selected projects involve leading institutions like IIT Jodhpur, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Mandi, and IIIT Dharwad, along with private firms and civil society groups.
Key initiatives include Saakshya, a deepfake detection tool by IIT Jodhpur and IIT Madras; AI Vishleshak by IIT Mandi for detecting audio-visual deepfakes and signature forgeries; and a real-time voice deepfake detector by IIT Kharagpur. Other projects focus on reducing gender bias in agricultural AI (Digital Futures Lab & Karya) and developing security testing tools for generative AI models (Globals ITES & IIIT Dharwad).
“The five selected projects under the second EoI demonstrate IndiaAI’s commitment to translating the vision of Safe & Trusted AI into concrete solutions,” the ministry said in a statement.
“These initiatives will advance real-time deepfake detection, strengthen forensic analysis, address bias in AI models, and build robust evaluation tools for generative AI, ensuring that AI systems deployed in India are reliable, secure, and inclusive,” it added.