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Shield yourself: Judgement is the last human bastion against AI bots ready to take jobs away

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- On the last day of their meeting in Prague in August 2006, 424 astronomers of the International Astronomical Union voted to demote Pluto from its current status. Having grown up,... और पढ़ें


Resistance to data centres is arising in India too: It's time for policy to address people's concerns

New Delhi, Oct. 6 -- This July, several hundred residents of Thane formed a human chain outside a 53-acre plot in Balkum that had been earmarked for a hyperscale data centre. They were agitating again... और पढ़ें


Agentic AI can be given access to digital public infrastructure only after they pass a security check

New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- In the short time since the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident happened, I have written not one but two articles about it. In August, I pointed out that this incident was evidence tha... और पढ़ें


Learning on the job is crucial for certain professions but AI threatens to automate it away

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- In a post earlier this month, mathematician Terence Tao described a recent incident at the frontier of his field. He spoke of how, just days after a young mathematician named St... और पढ़ें


Thinking of AI agents as digital humans is convenient but we mustn't take this analogy too far

New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- Of the many articles written after the OpenAI-HuggingFace incident late last month, one by Dwarkesh Patel in which he referred to it as the rise and fall of agent 'civilisations'... और पढ़ें


India is an inventive country, yet too many innovations die prematurely. Let's prevent that

New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- The Simputer was the first genuinely original computer that India built. As the legal advisor to the project, I was lucky to own one of its first colour units off the production ... और पढ़ें


Why guardrails and constitutions aren't enough to stop rogue AI-and what may actually work instead

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- In July 2026, the UK's AI Safety Institute (AISI) realized that an agent it had tasked with completing a software-security exercise had tried to social-engineer its way to the so... और पढ़ें


OpenAI copyright case: the court ruling gave the company relief but doesn't relieve the AI industry

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- In recent months, there have been more than a few court rulings on the copyright implications of training artificial intelligence (AI) models. Last month, the Regional Court of M... और पढ़ें


Are open-weight AI models like Kimi available for anyone to use? Not quite. Here's why

New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- Late last month, Moonshot AI released the weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter artificial intelligence (AI) model so advanced that it only lags the very best models from ... और पढ़ें


India's order against Bitchat defies logic-and it's time to draw a clear line on software bans

At 23, July 28 -- 16 on the night of 23 July, a nodal officer at the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) issued a takedown order to GitHub, giving the company just three hours to comply. Whi... और पढ़ें