A working paper from Prof. Kashish Makkar and Prof. Ashwin Upreti of the Centre titled ‘Deploying Right to Information for Accountable AI’ was selected for presentation at the Participatory AI Research and Practice Symposium (PAIRS), held as part of the pre-summit programme of the AI Summit. The paper constitutes a significant policy contribution from the Centre, situating India’s Right to Information architecture within the emerging governance challenges posed by Al-enabled public decision-making.

The paper argues that the RTI Act 2005, in its current form, operates as a reactive, demand-driven regime: the right to information is individualised, record-centric, and enforced only through adjudication triggered by a citizen’s request. The paper calls for a shift toward a proactive, systems-driven disclosure architecture in which transparency is treated as a continuous institutional obligation and a public good, rather than an individual entitlement to be claimed case by case.