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Jun 10
Legal AI tools are being sold on the promise that they will fit into how lawyers work. That is backwards. The real advantage of AI is personalisation—that you can unlock it only if you learn to use the raw system yourself.
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Jun 4
When AI agents collude on their own, our existing legal systems will struggle to keep up. Liability for agentic AI should be traceable, not absolute.
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May 28
If you missed the opportunity to apply for an NIF Book Fellowship last year, you no longer have to wait until next year. We have moved to an annual cycle. Check the website for details of how to submit your proposals.
The NIF Book Fellowship has moved to an annual cycle. Nandini Nair, Associate Director at the New India Foundation, on what this means: writers who narrowly miss selection no longer wait two years to reapply, NIF can reach writers earlier in their careers and across more regions, and a steadily growing alumni community strengthens mentorship across generations of writers.
Round 13 applications will open shortly.
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May 27
I have long believed that AI is a tool that will help writers in their work if only they learn how to use it. But thanks to the controversy around this year's Commonwealth Foundation Prize that seems unlikely to happen
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May 27
To prove (largely to myself) that it can be done, I got AI to generate a full-length book. And then create a website on which it can be read. You can read it for yourself at the-recognition-problem.com
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May 20
Verifiable credentials let you prove who you are including masked identity in a privacy preserving manner. This is far safer than a photocopied ID. India built this years before the world—we just need to use it.
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May 13
Past waves of financial digitisation made existing systems faster. Tokenisation is different. By putting assets and money on a single shared ledger, it changes the way finance is done.
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May 6
In 2024, biologists voluntarily paused mirror-life research — proving science can stop itself. AI has failed to do so because the five conditions that the mirrorlife moratorium hold are absent in the case of AI.
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Apr 29
It is an unfortunate reality that 70% of Indians lack health insurance. The problem isn't affordability — it's visibility. Insurers lack the data to price risk accurately. But we can use data to fix this.
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Apr 29
Over the past few weeks, I have been experimenting with a new interactive illustration format in my articles. Here is this week's explorable:
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Apr 22
In a single week in March, two results dramatically shortened the quantum runway. For India, which has staked its digital life on cryptographic trust, the clock is ticking.
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Apr 15
Claude Mythos found thousands of unknown security vulnerabilities in critical software. When AI develops capabilities far in excess of anything we have seen before, who decides how they will be used and by whom?
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Apr 13
I love nothing more than a good argument, and in this episode of Deepak Disagrees, @iDeepakVS and I argue about property - both tangible and intangible - ownership, rights and the incentive to create.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2Ln…
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Apr 8
The proposed amendments to the Digital Media guidelines may seem modest, but these three innocuous changes could replace India's current rule-based governance framework with a regime of executive discretion.
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Apr 4
The global economy is now too interconnected for countries to pursue self-sufficiency. Given the complexity of modern technology, interdependence is the only viable path forward.
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Mar 26
Verifiable credentials are a reliable mechanism for validating documents that have been digitally issued. And yet we continue to insist on notarial attestation - a system that is at least 2000 years old.
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Mar 20
What I really worry about is embodied AI, especially if its arrival coincides with India's demographic dividend. We need to find a way to protect ourselves against the disruption it will cause.
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Mar 12
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Mar 12
If it is only cutting-edge AI that will give us the exponential benefits we need, we should make every effort to secure access to the APIs through which they are currently being made available.
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Mar 5
I am a lawyer who does not know how to code and thanks to AI I now have 2 apps in the App Store. AI is already transforming the world leveraging that properly will be the most important thing we do in the coming years.
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Mar 5
For those asking, the links to the apps are embedded in the article. Resharing here in case it’s easier.
First a simple word game:
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