AI needs to be human-centred to charm people into adoption
Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." There have always been a few people who have used technology for nefarious activities.…
Swiss tangle: Most favoured interpretations of treaties can prove unfavourable
If this golden rule is applied across the board, we will not have faced an embarrassment with the Swiss government over their withdrawal of our most favoured nation (MFN) status,…
Alternate investment funds: An industry at risk of death by a thousand circulars
The year-long ‘regulatory rumble’ against India’s alternate investment fund (AIF) industry is a textbook example of regulatory excess. The industry is at risk of suffering a slow death by a…
India’s Digital Data Protection rules: A story of hits and misses
That said, there are two areas—data breaches and the obligations of significant data fiduciaries—where I believe the government has exceeded its brief. It has in the process greatly increased the…
Ara Darzi on why antibiotic resistance could be deadlier than cancer
Millions of lives have been saved since and the drugs were once thought to have put an end to infectious disease. But that dream has died as bacteria resistant to…
Schrodinger’s Cat and the case for paranoid optimism under Trump 2.0
Optimism is in order because the world, chaotic as it currently looks, might get better—and yes, in part because a new American president, Donald Trump, could tackle problems in such…