Lost in a maze of passwords? Passkeys offer a convenient and secure path to website access

New Delhi, June 16 -- Last week, I tried to cancel an e-mandate and found myself in a world of pain. As I recall, it was super easy to set up the standing instruction-all I had to do was provide my cr... Read More

Lawyers who embrace AI have much to gain-but they must use these tools on their own terms

New Delhi, June 9 -- All of a sudden, legal AI solutions are all the rage. Harvey, a leading legal AI company, is now valued at $11 billion, while Legora, its nearest rival, just raised $550 million i... Read More

Agentic AI can run amok. To pin legal liability, we need records of who deployed which AI agents

New Delhi, June 2 -- Nine years ago, in an article in this column, I tried to imagine what would happen if autonomous algorithms were let loose in a digital market with instructions to maximize profit... Read More

Literary invasion: what does it mean for writers if AI written stuff is deemed the best by the most discerning?

New Delhi, May 26 -- Last week, the internet was abuzz with allegations that this year's winner of the Commonwealth Foundation prize for Caribbean regional short fiction had been written using artific... Read More

Don't pick the wrong privacy battle: Aadhaar held in a Google Wallet shouldn't make anyone nervous

New Delhi, May 19 -- Last month, when Google announced that Indian residents can now store their Aadhaar verifiable credentials in their Google Wallet, the reaction was shrill. Since then, much ink ha... Read More

It's time to tokenize sovereign debt now that India's e-rupee is ready to help finance evolve

New Delhi, May 12 -- At the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai last year, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the launch of a "next-generation financial market infrastructure," design... Read More

AI could make use of India's health stack data to expand the country's health insurance coverage

New Delhi, April 28 -- Nearly 70% of Indians lack meaningful health insurance. Our penetration rate- just 0.35% of GDP-is lower than that of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The conventional explanation i... Read More

Leaps in quantum computing leaps may put DPI like Aadhaar and DigiLocker at risk if we don't act quickly

New Delhi, April 21 -- Traditional computers store information in bits. Quantum computers operate very differently. They use qubits, a whole new information architecture that leverages a quantum prope... Read More

How Anthropic's Mythos AI has exposed India to a cybersecurity worry with sovereignty implications

New Delhi, April 14 -- Last week, Anthropic announced that its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Claude Mythos, was too dangerous to release. In testing, the company discovered that the model... Read More

Don't take free speech curbs too far: Rethink the proposed amendments to India's internet rules

New Delhi, April 7 -- On 30 March, the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) published draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules, 2021, which,... Read More

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