Rahul Matthan

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If it is only cutting-edge AI that will give us the exponential benefits we need, we should make every effort to secure access to the APIs through which they are currently being made available. My latest Ex Machina article. rahulmatthan.com/ex-machina/202…

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For those asking, the links to the apps are embedded in the article. Resharing here in case it’s easier. First a simple word game: apps.apple.com/in/app/anagram…

I am a lawyer who does not know how to code and thanks to AI I now have 2 apps in the App Store. AI is already transforming the world leveraging that properly will be the most important thing we do in the coming years. My latest Ex Machina article. rahulmatthan.com/ex-machina/202…

I thought the India AI Impact Summit went well. Not just for the declarations and commitments, but because of the focus on diffusion and use cases to demonstrate the real-world impact of this technology. My latest Ex Machina article rahulmatthan.com/ex-machina/202…

Now that we can connect self-driving cloud laboratories to modern AI systems, we need to strike a careful balance between the benefits that can accrue to us and the risk we need to mitigate. My latest Ex Machina article. rahulmatthan.com/ex-machina/202…

Advances in computational biology mean that we can create the biological substances we need. And maybe finally stop treating animals as factories. My latest Ex Machina article. rahulmatthan.com/ex-machina/202…

Everyone has been talking about OpenClaw, the new "headless" agentic system that seems to suggest that if AI is given autonomous agency, there will soon be a bot uprising. I argue that the real concern lies elsewhere. My latest Ex Machina article. rahulmatthan.com/ex-machina/202…

We all want AI to be explainable. To understand why it does what it does so that when it makes mistakes we can fix it. But trying to get large language models to explain themselves is a lot harder that it sounds. My latest Ex Machina article. rahulmatthan.com/ex-machina/202…

If the regulatory logic behind the long patent term is to ensure that inventors have time to recoup their investments, should we not adjust it to align with the actual time and effort taken to invent? My latest Ex Machina article. rahulmatthan.com/ex-machina/202…

We collect vast amounts of information in the name of KYC. Those vast datasets are now the target of hackers from around the world. There must be a better way to achieve our regulatory objectives. My latest Ex Machina article. rahulmatthan.com/ex-machina/202…

On this the last day of the year and of the first quarter of the century, I thought I'd use my Ex Machina column to look ahead and try and predict what the next 25 years will bring. My latest Ex Machina column. exmachina.in/31/12/2025/the…

There is a presumption that when copyright material is processed to train AI models, it is copied in a manner that constitutes infringement. This is not true and is based on an incorrect understanding of how AI works. My latest Ex Machina article. exmachina.in/24/12/2025/tra…

The Government of India's proposal for addressing AI's copyright problem is innovative but fundamentally flawed. It is a Reverse Robin Hood solution that will harm the very creators it was supposed to help. My latest Ex Machina article. exmachina.in/17/12/2025/rev…

Our data regulations focus on the processes that must be followed to achieve data scarcity. Rather than prescribing processes, we should design them to engineer the outcomes we want to achieve. My latest Ex Machina article. exmachina.in/10/12/2025/eng…

Just because we have the data does not mean we can do whatever we want with it in order to investigate criminal offences. My latest Ex Machina article. exmachina.in/03/12/2025/new…

India is trying to address the AI challenge by focusing on models. Instead, what we need to do is figure out how AI can be used to address real-world problems. This requires us to shift our focus downstream. My latest Ex Machina article. exmachina.in/26/11/2025/the…

Although the DPDP Act was enacted in 2023, most companies were waiting for the rules to be notified. Now that that has happened, they are panicking about whether there is enough time to comply. For all you worrywarts, here is a 3-step compliance guide. exmachina.in/19/11/2025/a-3…

The AI Governance Guidelines are out. I was part of the drafting committee, and in my latest Ex Machina article, I have tried to contribute some additional nuance to what has already been written about it in the press. exmachina.in/12/11/2025/ai-…