MOHAMMAD ZIYAUDDIN
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The Finance Ministry in India has issued orders to all employees blocking usage of AI tools including ChatGPT and DeepSeek for their official tasks. Government officials made this decision because they wish to protect government data via media sources. Australia along with Italy has adopted comparable employee restrictions that raised privacy concerns about sensitive information misuse.
The news emerged on Tuesday about the advisory while Sam Altman from OpenAI planned to visit India to meet with the IT Minister during Wednesday.
The Indian Finance Ministry document dated January 29 (2025) established that official AI tools as well as AI applications (such as ChatGPT, DeepSeek etc.) on office computers create hazards regarding (government) document and data confidentiality.
Multiple representatives of India’s Finance Ministry and OpenAI and DeepSeek could not provide comments about this advisory.
Internal Finance Ministry officials confirmed to three members of the media that an official AI tool usage restriction was issued this week to provide no access for official purposes.
The current status regarding AI restrictions across different ministries of India remains uncertain since Reuters has been unable to confirm broader mandate directives. The advisory follows worldwide safety concerns that Artificial Intelligence poses to official data security in all confidential messages.
OpenAI contends with legal disputes in India because multiple major media companies allege IPOfacts breaches their copyright rights. The legal documents from OpenAI maintain that the company lacks Indian servers and rejects Indian court authority in the pending case.
Users can now generate dynamic responsive messages through ChatGPT under the latest platform updates owned by OpenAI. Platform users now gain improved features from their AI chatbot since it accepted image and voice messages and enhanced its text-based query capabilities.
