India's proposal to make AI firms pay for training on the original work of creators will have more losers than winners

New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- Last week, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) released a working paper on 'Generative AI and Copyright,' recommending a 'hybrid model' that it cl... Read More

Is India's privacy law already outdated? AI thrives on data abundance but we're aiming for scarcity

New Delhi, Dec. 9 -- I have long argued that modern technologies can only be effective if governed by principle-based legislation. Prescriptive rules tend to be sclerotic, calcifying faster than the t... Read More

Law enforcers can use technology to catch criminals but must not violate our constitutional rights

New Delhi, Dec. 2 -- In 2011, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation identified Timothy Carpenter as the ringleader of a string of armed robberies in Michigan and Ohio. Instead of obtaining a search w... Read More

India shouldn't build AI models: The prize lies in using what exists to innovate and generate value

New Delhi, Nov. 25 -- Earlier this year, Amazon announced that it was eliminating 14,000 management positions because artificial intelligence (AI) tools had rendered those middle-management roles redu... Read More

Complying with India's personal data protection law is easy: Businesses have no excuse not to

New Delhi, Nov. 18 -- Although we have known since 2023 that India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act of 2023 (DPDP Act) would come into effect sooner or later, most businesses put off taking acti... Read More

India's AI Governance Guidelines: Their pro-innovation approach could offer a template for the Global South

New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- Last week, the ministry of electronics and information technology released the India AI Governance Guidelines, a proposed framework for governing artificial intelligence (AI). As... Read More

Humans built AI to serve them but we could end up as tools wielded by this technology

New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- In their book, If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argue that intelligence comprises two types of work: predicting the world and steering it. Inte... Read More

India could lose access to the world's most cutting-edge AI models. We must act rightaway

New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- Most AI developers prefer to use open-weight models to build their solutions because they can be fine-tuned to suit specific requirements. Take, for example, DeepSeek, the open-w... Read More

Design systems that help people identify what's authentic instead of labelling all that's fake

New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- Earlier this month, OpenAI rolled out Sora, a short-form video app that was its first foray into social media. While the last thing we need is yet another algorithmically-curated... Read More

Lawyers run the US and engineers run China: Has India struck an ideal balance?

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- China's Quest to Engineer the Future, Dan Wang describes two distinct approaches to development. China, he argues, has risen to its current global stature on the back of an engin... Read More

• 1
• 2
• »