India is currently addressing the AI challenge by focusing on AI models. But the need of the hour is to determine how AI can be used to address real-world problems. This is where India has an opportunity to lead - downstream of where its current focus lies.

Now that we know the DPDP Act, 2023 will come into force in just under 18 months, data fiduciaries have begun to panic, worried that they have left it too late. For all the procrastinators out there, here is an easy 3-step guide to assessing where you currently stand.

The new AI Governance Guidelines issued by MeiTy describe a pro-innovation regulatory framework for AI in India that strikes a balance between the need to encourage AI adoption while safeguarding against the risks that might result.

If the characteristics of intelligence are the ability to both predict the world and steer it, modern AI systems might possess the former but currently lack the latter. That is, until they get us humans to do the steering for them…?

To ensure their safety, open-weight models are being released further and further behind the current state of the art. What does this mean for Indian AI developers who have traditionally preferred open-weight models for the flexibility they offer?

A consensus seems to be emerging around the world that what we need to do to protect people is label AI-generated content so that they are not misled into thinking it is real. The trouble is that watermarks are easily circumvented. Would we not be far better off just calling out what little content is real?

Modern warfare increasingly relies on low-cost, unmanned devices operated either autonomously or under remote human control. This approach has managed to successfully challenge the superiority of conventional weapons of war. As India plans to upgrade its fleet it would do well to embrace this change.

Modern warfare increasingly relies on low-cost, unmanned devices operated either autonomously or under remote human control. This approach has managed to successfully challenge the superiority of conventional weapons of war. As India plans to upgrade its fleet it would do well to embrace this change.

There is no doubt that AI is a technology like no other and that, as a result, the disruption it is likely to cause will be unprecedented. But despite the existential fear that this has brought about, it is unlikely that it will render us irrelevant. Not so long as we continue to constantly question.

As the technology to collect neural information directly from our brains starts to become commercially viable, we need to think deeply about the social and ethical implications of this. Apart from just data protection we may need a broader articulation of cognitive liberty.