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Being Jagdish Bhagwati in a Conflict-Riven World
In a world beset by geopolitical and economic turmoil, the sanguine advice of Jagdish is as relevant as before.Disruption Ahead
Optimists uphold that the productive deployment of AI will eventually increase prosperity and well-being universally, as had happened with electricity or telephones.With Elections in at Least 83 Countries, Will 2024 be the Year of AI...
Regulatory panic could do more harm than good. Rather than poor risk management today, rules should anticipate the greater risks that lie ahead.Interview | Large Organisations Should Consolidate and Streamline Their...
Deepak Maheshwari talks about how national cyber security strategy should be one of the top policy priorities of the government post the elections in India.What if Regulation Makes the AI Monopoly Worse?
In an industry already primed for concentration, creative alternatives for safeguarding the public interest are needed.Charting the Emerging Geography of AI
The authors present an index of the 25 countries that are vying for global leadership on AI — and the factors that determine which nations will pull ahead.The Self-Serving Overreach of Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza
Democracy has the built-in check of electoral accountability. But that happens only every 4- 5 years. In the interim, leaders have considerable latitude to exercise power ostensibly for the purpose of ‘national security'.The Unconservative Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke is frequently seen as the forerunner of the conservative movement, not least for his fierce critique of the French Revolution. But both his admirers and his detractors have too often ignored the complexity of his thought, which in important ways challenges the politics of the contemporary right, writes Uday Singh ...Winston Churchill: Contextualising Debates about His Life and Legacy
Ramu Damodaran reviews the book "The Cambridge Companion to Winstn Churchill."How Will AI Change Work? A Look Back at the ‘Productivity Paradox’ of...
The explosion of interest in artificial intelligence has drawn attention not only to the astonishing capacity of algorithms to mimic humans but to the reality that these algorithms could displace many humans in their jobs. The economic and societal consequences could be nothing short of dramatic.How GPT Mania Could Harm AI Innovation
The scramble to win the GPT race could divert essential resources from the development of more socially meaningful uses of AI, writes Bhaskar Chakravorti.Why We Can’t ‘Pause’ AI
Mixed views on AI reflect the international community’s inability to look beyond narrow interests to address problems of global commons, writes Vikram Singh Mehta.Look at AI, not ChatGPT
Few paid attention to the fact that the first alert of a mysterious new virus out of Wuhan, China, came through AI.Of Love, Of Selfishness and a World
Ramu Damodaran writes for Indepth News.The Man Who Stood Against the Tide of History
Ramu Damodaran reviews Kishan S Rana's book on Winston Churchill.Of Pele, of Brazil, of Rio
Ramu Damodaran writes about Brazil in UNICEF and the UN.To Save Twitter, Elon Musk Should Fire Himself
Musk’s conflicts of interest make him too dangerous to run the global public sphere, writes Bhaskar Chakravorti.Three Tech Industry Trends to Watch in 2022
Fringe players take on Big Tech, governments start regulating, and AI could finally prove its worth, writes Bhaskar Chakravorti.Indian Treasures at Home and Abroad
Historically significant sites, artefacts and papers in India and the UK should be made accessible to wider audiences.