New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- India's top cybersecurity agency has laid out a set of security, transparency and accountability requirements for artificial intelligence (AI) systems, seeking to establish minimum standards for companies building and deploying AI.

The 107-page guidelines, titled Artificial Intelligence Security Auditing Guidelines: Framework for Secure, Ethical and Auditable Artificial Intelligence Systems, was published on Wednesday by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).

While it applies to all AI developers and service providers, including US-based companies behind popular applications ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, it is legally binding only for cyber security auditors that are empanelled with Cert-In. Put simply...