The Union ministry of finance has issued an advisory to its staff cautioning them against the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT and China’s DeepSeek because of concerns over data protection of confidential government information. The advisory read, “It has been determined that AI tools and AI apps (such as ChatGPT, DeepSeek etc.) in office computers and devices pose risks for confidentiality of (government) data and documents”. Several countries, public sector departments and corporations have prohibited the use of DeepSeek in a matter of days after its release. DeepSeek’s AI assistant topped the list of most downloaded mobile apps across 140 markets. India accounts for the largest percentage of new users. It has been holding the no. 1 spot on Apple’s App store globally.
Paris AI Action Summit 2025
As DeepSeek has shocked the AI world, global leaders are set to gather in Paris on February 10 for two days to deliberate upon the future of AI. PM Narendra Modi will also be travelling to France to co-chair the Paris AI Action Summit. Global leaders are expected to discuss how to leverage the power of AI systems while addressing the risks posed by the technology. The summit’s agenda is to focus on themes of safety, governance, and innovation. The open-source AI systems, clean energy to power data centres, impact of AI on labour, distributing AI’s benefits to developing nations, and promoting sovereignty in a global AI market are the topics that will also be prioritised, according to reports. This summit comes after the AI Safety Summit held in the United Kingdom in 2023 and another gathering in Seoul, South Korea, last year. The UK summit focused on the debate surrounding ‘doomsday’ concerns posed by AI and led to the Bletchley Declaration on AI Safety that was signed by all 29 participating nations, including the US, China, and India. At the Seoul summit, over 16 AI companies such as OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, and firms from China, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) voluntarily committed to develop AI in a transparent manner.
CIA chats with AI clones of world leaders
Recently, it was reported The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is making the use of a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence to predict and study the behaviours of world leaders. Reports say that analysts comb through intelligence collected by spies and publicly available information to create profiles of leaders that can predict behaviours. The CIA has developed a tool over the past two years that allows analysts to talk to virtual versions of foreign presidents and prime ministers who respond accordingly. Nand Mulchandani, the CIA’s chief technology officer (CTO), has been quoted as saying, “It is a fantastic example of an app that we were able to rapidly deploy and get out to production in a cheaper, faster fashion.” The chatbot serves as the agency to improve the tools available to CIA analysts and its officers in the field, as well as get a better understanding of others’ technical advances.
