The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre and others to consider a petitioner's suggestions on framing binding guidelines on ethics and transparency in AI-based surveillance and content moderation. "Tell us what can we do," the bench told the petitioner at the outset. Goswami said he was pressing one of the prayers made in the petition, which sought a direction to the Centre to file an affidavit disclosing all existing and proposed high-risk Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems used by the ministries or agencies in welfare, policing, surveillance and content regulation. "Send your writ petition as a representation," the bench said, adding that it was a comprehensive petition. "We are not the experts. It is a highly technical issue and it is in policy domain," the bench observed, noting the issues raised need formulation of appropriate policy or regulation. The bench noted the petitioner had, in February this year, submitted a representation to the government on the issue. While disposing of the petition at this stage without expressing any opinion on the merits, the bench asked the authorities to consider the suggestions for taking appropriate measures, and said the petitioner is at liberty to supplement the representation. In his PIL, Goswami sought a direction to the Centre to constitute a high-powered expert committee to frame "binding guidelines on AI ethics, mandatory algorithmic impact assessments and bias audits, transparency in AI-based surveillance and content moderation, human-in-the-loop oversight for all high-risk governmental AI systems, and data protection safeguards..." The plea also sought a direction to conduct and