Rahul Matthan

We need artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems that humans have struggled with. If it can't, it will end up as just another fad. A major test case will be how it helps improve the learning outcomes of our school children. A Tamil Nadu experiment shows promise.

To ease data inflows even from the most privacy-minded of jurisdictions, like the EU, we could join the Global Cross Border Privacy Rules Forum. Since the GCBPR checklist is close to what local privacy norms require, its certification is within the reach of Indian data processors.

Data protection laws which assume people know what they’re doing when they offer consent for the use of their data have a fatal flaw. To fix it, data collectors must be held responsible for the privacy harms they cause, whether or not they took consent.

What happens when a business that's privy to our personal data gets acquired by another? India's digital personal data protection law has a gap that needs to be plugged so that consent taken in one context doesn't get used in another.

Given that forest departments can’t hope to monitor the movement of all wildlife, camera images captured by private individuals are a simple way to augment their information on animals outside the territory they patrol.

An industry is arising to help brands work out how to game what AI chatbots say, just as search engine optimizers arose to tilt search results one way or another. This raises ethical questions and could make users wary of generative artificial intelligence.

While we think of privacy as an individual right, our data protection laws can't adequately secure it on digital networks. We needn't go so far as to disengage from social media, but must remember that everything we put on the internet could go public.

There is much that only human lawyers can do, but law firms risk choking their talent pipeline by deploying AI for junior level tasks and disrupting the learning curve of young lawyers. An AI takeover of basic work would mean fewer lawyers trained to do what AI cannot.

New Delhi, Nov. 12 -- Last week, I was speaking at a conference in Singapore on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the practice of law.

It's important to embed regulation in digital infrastructure. And it's technically possible for a software update to enforce India's consent-based privacy law on users of this financial data-sharing network.