Anurag Mehra

Anurag Mehra
Anurag Mehra

Anurag Mehra teaches engineering and policy at IIT Bombay. His policy focus is the interface between technology, culture and politics.​

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence-III

Tech companies in a race for profit seek unbridled development of generative AI, unmindful of the potentially far-reaching economic, social and political fallout. The field is calling out for…
▶27-Nov-2023
Anurag Mehra

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence-II

There is a maelstrom of biases, misinformation, surveillance and deepfake generation that is now associated with generative AI. It is these trends rather than esoteric fears of loss of autonomy that…
▶24-Nov-2023
Anurag Mehra

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence-I

A 3-part series explains the main features of the rapid growth of AI today, current research and issues in regulation. Part-I discusses the core idea of AI, the growth of 'generative' AI…
▶23-Nov-2023
Anurag Mehra

Rote Learning and the Destruction of Creativity

The shallow form of schooling with its emphasis on information kills rather than develops curiosity and creativity, all made worse by the importance given to 'marks' recorded in exams. An…
▶08-Jun-2021
Anurag Mehra

The Digital Panopticon and How It Is Fuelled by Personal Data–II

Personal data is being extracted and shared by private and state agencies; facial recognition is being used by governments to profile their citizens. What should we do and can we demand to resist…
▶26-Oct-2020
Anurag Mehra

The Digital Panopticon and How It Is Fuelled by Personal Data

Our phones are continuously leaking data about who we are, where we are, what we read, what we buy, and a lot more. The data is being collected with and without our consent. It is sold for profit;…
▶20-Oct-2020
Anurag Mehra
Essay

Crowdsourcing “Knowledge”

The brazen articulation of weird ideas is now a mass phenomenon. These ideas reveal an ignorance of elementary science & history, yet have wide traction & lethal consequences. Why has '…
▶03-Mar-2020
Anurag Mehra