New Delhi, April 17 -- When ChatGPT was first made publicly available, I remember marvelling at the quality of its output and thinking that AI had finally improved to the point where it might be good ... Read More
New Delhi, April 9 -- Among the more worrisome provisions of India's new Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, is Section 9 that imposes an obligation on all data fiduciaries to obtain a ... Read More
New Delhi, April 2 -- It is hard to argue with the success of India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI). With over 12 billion transactions processed each month, it is already, by an order of magnitude,... Read More
New Delhi, March 26 -- Last year saw tremendous enthusiasm around the concept of digital public infrastructure (DPI) during the G20 and after. What I didn't realize at the time was that lurking just b... Read More
New Delhi, March 19 -- Last week, the price of Bitcoin reached a record high. Friends who just a few months ago were boasting about how cleverly they had exited before the crash were now bemoaning the... Read More
New Delhi, March 13 -- Last week, I came across a newspaper article about the perils of a new form of entertainment. This scourge was, the piece argued, "a vehicle of pure moral and religious instruct... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- Last week saw the release of yet another artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 1.5, Google's much-awaited response to ChatGPT. As has now become the norm, on the day of its ... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- While I am not knowledgeable enough to opine on all the various complexities of climate change, I have on occasion reflected in this column on the role that technology can play i... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- Last month, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PM-EAC) released a paper proposing a new approach to regulating Artificial Intelligence (AI). It argues that while our... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 23 -- Over the past decade-and-a-half, I've had the good fortune of having witnessed India's rapid digitization from the sidelines. As exciting as it has been to see this transformatio... Read More