BATHINDA: Going by the political slugfest being fought in Punjab using the Artificial Intelligence (AI), Canada based youth of Punjab origin is seeing it as unethical which could have cascading effect on the lives of people. 33 years Abhinandan Singh Gill, who is based in Calgary, is working on standards to make political parties and individuals to be answerable for creating any unethical content which hurts many. Grandson of one of the tallest farmer leaders Ajmer Singh Lakhowal and son of farmer leader Harinder Singh Lakhowal, Abhinandan Singh Gill, Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP), who is Principal Advisor at Gillian Holdings Incorporated, an AI venture in Calgary, Canada, is working with Benchmarks and Standards bodies including national institution of standards and technology (NIST) and institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) to prepare standards for use of AI modules in ethical way. He hopes to come up with standards before the Punjab elections, early next year. Gill speaking to TOI said that presently the way AI generated videos are being prepared and circulated in Punjab to defame its respective opponents is unethical and those using such stuff do not know about the international standards. Using such stuff should an initial warning for them to go by the code of conduct and stop violating ethics, integrity, morals as it may have impact on the emotions of the people as manipulating the AI could put them in distress and could have cascading effect on people. Abhinandan, who holds a Master of Engineering from the University of British Columbia, brings more than a decade of governance, strategy, and transformation experience across enterprise technology, product, and regulated systems — spanning aviation, financial services, higher education, and digital platforms. His work sits at the point where artificial intelligence stops being theoretical and begins to create real-world consequence. Through eight U.S. patent applications — including published work in the field of artificial intelligence — Gill has developed a technical body of work focused on execution-layer governance, runtime authorization, benchmark evaluation, and the safe control of autonomous AI systems. He has direct engagement with the emerging standards and governance bodies that will define how autonomous systems are measured, controlled, and trusted. His contributions intersect with international AI standards, execution-integrity benchmarks, responsible AI frameworks, and the rules of concurrence that determine when an AI-generated action should be allowed to affect the real world and Gill want to use that expertise to stop misuse of AI generated stuff in Punjab. He says Punjab is entering a time when a fake video, a synthetic voice, or an AI-generated scene can make people believe something happened when it never did. A leader can be shown insulting farmers. A political party can be made to appear as if it disrespected Sikh symbols. A public figure can be shown laughing at flood victims, protecting drug networks, taking money, or secretly dealing with opponents. None of it may be true. But if the image looks real, if the voice sounds real, and if the moment touches the right emotion, the damage begins before truth has time to respond. Politics here is not just party competition. It is tied to land, faith, farmers, family memory, village honour, migration, dignity, and the long memory of power. A political message in Punjab is rarely received as just content. It is read through history and felt through identity. It can touch wounds that are already open — farmer struggles, religious sentiment, drug deaths, unemployment, floods, compensation delays, and distrust in institutions. Real videos are dismissed as fake. Fake videos are believed as real. Truth becomes party loyalty. Anger becomes strategy. Chaos becomes political currency. Content entertains; this manipulates. Content circulates; this can destabilize. If a synthetic video can inflame religious sentiment, mislead farmers, ruin reputations, distort elections, or manufacture public anger, then the issue is not media literacy alone — it is governance failure wearing a technology mask, he says.
