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Our Founder, @IndusThink was quoted by The Ken on "How India is trying to navigate AI copyright’s three-body problem", which by all means, is one of the few media reports with a nuanced and comprehensive take on AI copyright. Link: the-ken.com/newsletter/mak…

Reached 100 citations on Google Scholar. Yay! 😃 7 years of research in AI, Law and Policy. Glad it is going up finally. 🥹 @adityajakki @sougat18 @AnkitRajBharat @RupakChatto @AkshayNarisetti

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What does AI sovereignty mean for India now? Talking straight from the Bharat Mandapam.

On February 9, 2025, the First Edition of LegalTechPolicy.com Playbook was donated and gifted to be included in the Library of the @NFSU_Official. This book was presented by @IndusThink in a Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026, organised by NFSU Gandhinagar.

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The Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law (@IndianSocietyAI) in collaboration with Data Science and Ai Association of Australia held a highly productive virtual joint dialogue today. The recording of this session is out now: youtu.be/vtWWYQCAtZA The Joint Dialogue focused on exploring a fresher perspective in the Indo-Pacific market, especially India, Australia, Japan and the US - from both legal and industrial perspectives. 1️⃣ China's risk appetite and propensity of AI adoption despite being a fragmented market is interesting 2️⃣ Australia and Japan are perhaps the only Indo-Pacific countries who have created coordinated, soft legal and hard legal efforts in governing AI. 3️⃣ AI Safety Research is correlative to many AI diplomacy efforts which kind of is reflective in the US AI Action Plan and some efforts by the India AI Mission, for instance. Raymond Sun represented as a Director, DSAI Australia while ISAIL was represented by Abhivardhan, the President. Bogdan Grigorescu and @deepanshuS27 made excellent points on the industry side of things, especially on tech adoption, skilling and foundational models' strategic value. A lot of serious interventions were made by Francis P. Crawley, CODATA, Sankalp Srivastava, and Bahadur Shah. Special thanks to Tamonash Pan and Priyanshi Jain for their support as Rapporteurs to this joint dialogue.

We will do a breakdown of the weaknesses and limits of the bill - which could be plenty but don’t be misled at all. And these bills have lapsed in the parliament as we understand. So no need to panic.

You must’ve seen some professionals circulating some National Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Authority bill and a Deepfake bill. Please note: these were drafted by parliamentarians and not the Union Government (Government of India).

Happy to announce ⁦@indicpacific⁩’s partnership with GCG led by ⁦@AnkitRajBharat⁩. More to come. 😁

@IndusThink @Satvik_Pen @nirmalpatel_ @adityajakki @RupakChatto @AKLKO1977 Check the AI inventorship handbook at aiinventorship.com

I am often asked, what does @IndicPacific do? It's fun and nice - explained in 3.5 mins. Congrats to Kailash Chauhan and Bhavana J to lead the development of the Global AI Inventorship Handbook! cc @Satvik_Pen @nirmalpatel_ @adityajakki @RupakChatto @AKLKO1977

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We are proud to also present the JuriAide India E-Courts Manual, authored by @vakeelkapil, Ayush Chandra, and yours truly. Access the Manual at indicpacific.com/post/indic-pac… For the first time in India, we at @IndicPacific are eager to launch, perhaps India's first (or at least most-comprehensive) Legal Technology Manual, exclusively for judicial institutions, and not lawyers. The reasoning is that lawyers are external stakeholders to judicial infrastructure, despite them being "officers of the Court". With this, we announce the Re-launch of Juriaide LegalTech as the Legal Technology Division within Indic Pacific Legal Research LLP, under the leadership of Kapil Naresh.

I know that I keep referring about artificial intelligence standardisation, and I understand me referring this becomes so hard to fathom. What is standardisation in AI? Technology? Regulation? Policy? Business Culture? I must admit that I had some of the best crowd this year among many of my virtual sessions, from iFEEL - Institute for Future Education Entrepreneurship and Leadership as a part of their AI Awareness Week, where someone asked this crucial question. Watch the complete video at youtu.be/rPtwRcHy6EM?si… I have also discussed the challenges of making AI a part of employability criteria for companies in case there is some transition from non-AI-relying profession to automation/ AI-reliant work requirements. This is hard to document, but good to discuss and steelman our perspectives. Thanks to Sagar Bhadange for inviting me for this lovely session. More such sessions to go for this year.

Had a short, and sweet trip at lovely Hyderabad this weekend. At the kind invite of 42.ai, and Simrin Kapoor, I had spoke for an audience of developers, people running & building AI workflows, and even those who shaping their focus to get into the AI domain, and product managers at Lamakaan last Saturday. So, here's what I had discussed: Framework Fatigue in AI Governance. Across the world, endless regulatory, ethical, legal, market-related and industry-policy documents on artificial intelligence have been published. Sometimes one can lose the count of all of it, even if we get gaga over it. The fun and sad part of it is that for product managers, AI governance professionals, and even people who build such technologies by any virtue, will not be able to go through every single compliance/ guidance document around AI governance. Another fun part one must realise is that artificial intelligence governance, irrespective of the impact of the EU AI Act, has facets which are tailor-made, except those which are generalised around data-related and privacy-related practices. Since every AI system deployed need not be high-risk per se, and the industry is still coping up with the fact that there is no moat around AI right now under the LLM-research pivot (even OpenAI never had one), despite owning too much compute, AI governance practices will diversify. Through this workshop, I tried my best to emphasise that one cannot deny that just because regulations ain't coming in India on AI, AI governance would be dead. Not happening. The DPDPA will be implemented, including their rules in months, and not years. There will be adjudicatory issues around AI use. And to face that confusion - one should at least be prepared at a basic level, let's say. Here's the report I had presented in that session as well, feel free to read it: indopacific.app/product/iplr-i…

More terms on indicpacific.com/glossary to look out for: WENA (inspired by @NonsensicalNemo) Technophobia (inspired by inputs by @parmita)

Our glossary (indicpacific.com/glossary) just got updated for 2025! Check out new definitions of: Roughdraft AI (inspired by @GaryMarcus' coinage of the term) Indofuturism (inspired by @ekpraet) Framework Fatigue AI Agents (inspired by inputs of @akantjas) Technophobia

India in the Indo-Pacific: Elephant in a china shop or master strategist? Our new report spills the chai! #IndoPacificInsights Read: indopacific.app/product/india-… 🐘🌊🌏

📢 Joint Statement: Making Knowledge Accessible We're taking a significant step forward! 📚 The digital copies of all technical reports and AI handbooks by @IndicPacific & @IndianSocietyAI are now open-access. No paywalls, just knowledge.