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July 3, 2024

Time Limited Arguments

Everyone agrees that there is an urgent need to reform many aspects of the judicial system. One way to do this might be to re-consider the reliance w...

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June 19, 2024

AI Companions

One of the fastest growing categories of AI services is artificial companions. Recent advances in large language models have significantly accelerate its proliferation

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June 12, 2024

Good Governance

Good governance often calls for placing the values of the organisation ahead of short term gains. This is particularly important in AI, where the demands of investor to make quick returns can very easily incentivise companies to play fast and loose with safety.

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June 5, 2024

Diversity Through AI

Artificial Intelligence has the potential to significantly enhance our digital public infrastructure by bringing variety to a DPI approach that has s...

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May 22, 2024

Controlling AI Export

There has been growing concerns around the risks of open source AI. In the recent past these have begun to manifest themselves in the form of export ...

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May 8, 2024

Open Source Governance

There is a strange aversion in government circles to the use of open source software. I am no entirely sure where it comes from but I can try and debunk some of the misgivings.

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May 1, 2024

Ideas for Acceleration

Much of the reason why India has not yet achieved its full potential is because we simply have not invested in the institutional foundations of the I...

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April 24, 2024

The Finternet

A new paper from the Bank for International Settlements proposes the creation of a unified ledger and the tokenisation of everything. If it is succes...

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April 17, 2024

Getting AI to Work for You

Artificial intelligence might eventually replace us. But it still has a long way to go. In the meantime, rather than fretting about what might be, we might as well learn how to use it.

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April 10, 2024

Age Tokens

One of the more worrisome provisions of India's new data protection law has to do with processing of children's data - and in particular, how data fiduciaries should go about figuring out the age of those whose data they process.

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