Digital Technology

Bans, breakups and AI: Four digital frontiers for 2025

From artificial intelligence changing jobs to social media bans and TikTok turmoil, here are four tech trends that could shape 2025.
▶30-Dec-2024
Adam Smith

Digi Yatra: Service or Surveillance?

Worries about privacy, surveillance, & unfair exclusions have been raised about Digi Yatra, India’s airport facial recognition system. They are amplified by disturbing reports of airport staff…
▶08-Feb-2024
Disha Verma

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

Big Problems, Small Wins

Despite good intentions, much in the new Rajasthan gig workers act is built on weak foundations, which will make it difficult to implement. This makes it unlikely that the workers will actually get…
▶22-Aug-2023
Sabina Dewan

ChatGPT Interviewed: 'My Strengths and My Limits'

ChatGPT tells us in its own words of how it does what it does, its strengths, and also its inability to carry out deductive reasoning and make hypotheses. It says it can be an excellent supplement…
▶14-Feb-2023
Subhashis Banerjee

Bringing back the ‘Public’ in Digital Public Goods

Most digital public goods disempower publics and distract from strengthening more fundamental democratic devices. It is time to design and manage them not as technologies from above but as…
▶29-Nov-2022
Aaditeshwar Seth
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Consent and Privacy in the Age of Digital Technology

When Big Data reigns and the economy relies on mass surveillance and data collection, will humans end up as Pavlov’s dogs? Taking back control of our data will require rebuilding digital technologies…
▶03-Mar-2020
Radhika Krishnan