Rahul Matthan

New Delhi, June 9 -- All of a sudden, legal AI solutions are all the rage. Harvey, a leading legal AI company, is now valued at $11 billion, while

Banks and the like insist on frequent password changes of ever-rising complexity in the name of security. With our memory stretched to the limit, getting locked out is easy. Yet, technology exists to offer users relief without risking safety. It just needs adoption.

India's legal provisions are not just a maze, often befuddling in volume and complexity, they are scattered across myriad sources. All stipulations should be accessible at one place; only then can we insist that ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.

Unlike computer code that sits on a device and does what it's told, lab-engineered genes can multiply on their own. While novelties like flowers that glow are impressive, the technology behind them must urgently be regulated to keep hidden perils in check.

Doing away with human judgement at the management level is risky. What's being hailed as the next leap of capitalism needs to learn from the excesses of its last leap—the concept of limited liability. Recall the East India Company?

While more precise technology promises more accurate decisions, the World Cup has shown how tech-assisted calls on crucial matters could stir discontent. Is tech getting the better of human judgement even where humans have the final say?

Artificial intelligence promises much in the field of healthcare. But too much of what's on offer is not oriented to the needs of medical practice, but crafted by what data AI has access to. What doctors want solved should be the aim.

Can the capacity to escape state surveillance be interpreted as an offence in itself? India's action directed at Bitchat reveals muddled thinking on basic principles. While the digital sector awaits clarity, Bitchat benefits from the Streisand effect.

While open-weight models allow users to freely download their weights, that doesn't grant us the compute power needed for high inference tasks at the AI frontier. Users in India will benefit only once we serve intelligence on our own infrastructure.

The Delhi high court cited a copyright exemption that lets artificial intelligence (AI) be trained on protected content only if it passes a test to qualify for it. While ANI lost to OpenAI, this doesn't relieve AI trainers of legal uncertainty.