UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Anthropic circulates draft Bill regulating AI with U.S. lawmakers
Q1. With reference to risk-based regulation of artificial intelligence, consider the following statements: Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- Under the European Union's AI Act, AI systems classified as high-risk are barred from being placed on the EU market.
- Under a risk-based model, the same underlying AI technique may face different obligations depending on the purpose for which it is deployed.
- A power to block an AI model only when its expected harm crosses a catastrophic threshold follows the risk-based logic of reserving the strongest controls for the gravest risks.
- A. 1 and 3 only
- B. 1, 2 and 3
- C. 2 and 3 only
- D. 1 and 2 only
Q2. Consider the following statements: Which of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?
- India's AI Governance Guidelines avoid making mandatory approvals or licensing a general precondition for AI deployment, unless it is necessary.
- Under the IndiaAI Mission, tens of thousands of GPUs have been onboarded and offered to users at subsidised rates.
- A. Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement-II explains Statement-I
- B. Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct, but Statement-II does not explain Statement-I
- C. Statement-I is correct, but Statement-II is incorrect
- D. Statement-I is incorrect, but Statement-II is correct
Q3. Consider the following regulatory features: Which of the above are characteristic of prescriptive (rules-based) regulation rather than principle-based regulation?
- A requirement to obtain a licence before a product can be launched
- Broad outcome statements, such as 'people first', which regulated entities interpret for themselves
- A bright-line numerical trigger that automatically activates a regulatory power
- Freedom for regulated entities to choose how they meet the stated goals
- A. 1 and 3 only
- B. 2 and 4 only
- C. 1, 3 and 4 only
- D. 1, 2 and 3 only