New Delhi, March 16 -- India's statutory antitrust watchdog, the Competition Commission of India (CCI), has issued a guidance note advising companies to conduct self-audits when developing and deploying artificial intelligence tools to ensure they do not create anti-competitive outcomes, Chairperson Ravneet Kaur said on Monday.

"As an initial step we have issued a guidance note which provides self-audit by the stakeholders, by the boards, management and the decision makers in the organisations as to how they can ensure that at the stage of development, deployment and monitoring of those AI applications there aren't any hidden anti-competitive outcomes," Kaur said at the 11th National Conference on Economics of Competition Law organised b...