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.
My latest Ex Machina article.
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I thought the India AI Impact Summit went well. Not just for the declarations and commitments, but because of the focus on diffusion and use cases to demonstrate the real-world impact of this technology.
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Now that we can connect self-driving cloud laboratories to modern AI systems, we need to strike a careful balance between the benefits that can accrue to us and the risk we need to mitigate.
My latest Ex Machina article.
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Advances in computational biology mean that we can create the biological substances we need. And maybe finally stop treating animals as factories.
My latest Ex Machina article.
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Everyone has been talking about OpenClaw, the new "headless" agentic system that seems to suggest that if AI is given autonomous agency, there will soon be a bot uprising.
I argue that the real concern lies elsewhere.
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We all want AI to be explainable. To understand why it does what it does so that when it makes mistakes we can fix it. But trying to get large language models to explain themselves is a lot harder that it sounds.
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If the regulatory logic behind the patent term is to ensure that inventors have time to recoup their investments, should we not adjust it to better align with the actual time and effort taken to invent?
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We collect vast amounts of information in the name of KYC. Those vast datasets are now the target of hackers from around the world. There must be a better way to achieve our regulatory objectives.
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On this the last day of the year and of the first quarter of the century, I thought I'd use my Ex Machina column to look ahead and try and predict what the next 25 years will bring.
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There is a presumption that when copyright material is processed to train AI models, it is copied in a manner that constitutes infringement. This is not true and is based on an incorrect understanding of how AI works.
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The Government of India's proposed solution for AI's copyright problem is innovative but fundamentally flawed. It is a Reverse Robin Hood approach that will harm the very creators it was supposed to help.
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Our data regulations focus on the processes that must be followed to achieve data scarcity. Rather than prescribing processes, we should design them to engineer the outcomes we want to achieve.
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Just because we have the data does not mean we can do whatever we want with it in order to investigate criminal offences.
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India is trying to address the AI challenge by focusing on models. Instead, what we need to do is figure out how AI can be used to address real-world problems. This requires us to shift our focus downstream.
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Although the DPDP Act was enacted in 2023, most companies were waiting for the rules to be notified. Now that that has happened, they are panicking about whether there is enough time to comply. For all you worrywarts, here is a 3-step compliance guide.
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The AI Governance Guidelines are out. I was part of the drafting committee, and in my latest Ex Machina article, I have tried to contribute some additional nuance to what has already been written about it in the press.
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I am somewhat reassured by the fact that, as good as AI systems are at predicting the world, they suck at manipulating it. Until, that is, they get us humans to serve as their hands and legs.
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If open-weight models are going to be kept behind the current state of the art, what will this mean for Indian AI developers who have traditionally preferred open-weight models for the flexibility they offer?
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Yesterday, the Government of India opened a consultation on new regulations to label synthetically generated content. This might sound like a solution, but we would be far better off finding a way to identify what is true.
My latest Ex Machina article.
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We worry about what will happen to us when AI has all the answers. But we don't really need to think about this till it can ask the right questions.
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All our actions today, are shaped by invisible digital nudges. This is cybernetics made manifest, and we are realising how important it is that those in charge are working in the interests of society at large.
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If India wants to be a significant player in the AI space it will need to actively encourage investments into the space. We’ve done this before and all we need to do is apply the same playbook.
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The government of India has prohibited real money games, citing the social harms they cause. But banning activities rarely serves the intended purpose.
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The report of the RBI's FREE-AI committee (of which I was a part) proposes a regulatory framework for AI that both enables innovation and mitigates risk.
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When the first Aadhaar number was issued, we were warned that this would not end well. 15 years later, not only has the dystopia we were promised not arrived, the world has come to appreciate the need for digital identity.
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A mobile phone with a check mark
While we need to prevent fraud, the DoT's proposed mobile number validation platform risks centralising data and is an overreach of its authority. We need stronger SIM rules and fraud reporting—not more surveillance.
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A Venetian publisher in the 1400s examining a manuscript.
Copyright is supposed to help writers monetise their creations. Except that throughout its long history, very few have made a living from it. Writers write for their readers. Being read is all they really care about.
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Ever since the Industrial Revolution, laws have always evolved in response to technological change. We are standing on the threshold of a similar technological shift, and our legal system is likely to change yet again.
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Gene editing offers up solutions for rare diseases. And India’s remarkable genetic diversity means that we can play an active role.
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The open source sustainability crisis is the classic tragedy of the commons. Since India's DPI globalisation is build on open source DPGs it runs the risk of facing the same challenges. But there may be a way out.
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