Leveraging AI in Education for Foundational Learning in India
It was during the monsoon of 2025 that I travelled to the eastern Indian state of Bihar, a state with over 130 million people, where the per capita income remains one of the lowest in the country. During the trip, I visited a local administrative office to collect some information about the local population.The officer […]
Explaining the AI Resilience and Adaptation Framework
AI resilience isn’t about tech companies fixing their systems — it’s about how society adapts when AI safeguards fail. This article explains how the resilience framework, through Avoidance, Defence, and Remedy interventions, prepares society to manage risks from increasingly powerful and accessible AI systems. On the 6th of December 2025, a seventeen-year-old boy in Japan was […]
Deconstructing India’s AI Governance Framework
This article uses the AI lifecycle approach (used in AI Governance research) to examine the risks and policy across three stages — Design/ Testing/ Training; Deployment and Usage; and Longer-Term Diffusion. At each stage, effective governance requires three policy goals: creating visibility into AI systems, promoting best practices for safe development, and establishing enforcement mechanisms. […]
AI Governance & Safety Vocabulary List
I have compiled this list with the help of LLM Claude. The list is based on my reading of the blogs “What Risks Does AI Pose” by Adam Jones and Machines of Loving Grace by Dario Amodel (Resources: from The Promise and Perils of AI BlueDot Impact ) Core AI Safety Concepts Alignment Problem The challenge of making AI […]
Lessons in AI Biases from Amsterdam and Beyond
Why Participatory Research Methods Are the Missing Link in AI Bias Detection. For over a decade, I have been working as a researcher and a journalist on human-centric development issues across South Asia. My work involved doing extensive studies on sex and Informal entertainment workers, framing policies and programmes to tackle violence against women, building […]
Why AI Policy Briefs are so US Centric? Media Bias in the AI Triad
Do You Remember the Early Days of Social Media? It was while working on an assignment for my AI Governance course with BlueDot Impact that I stumbled on an uncomfortable truth: much of the AI discourse generated by large language models (LLMs) on governance, policy, and ethics is heavily tilted towards the United States. The assignment itself was […]
AI as a Digital Companion: an Indian perspective
Do You Remember the Early Days of Social Media? One thought that often comes to mind when using tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other generative AI models is how similar this feels to our early engagement with social media between 2006 and 2010. Social media was revolutionary back then — no one could have predicted […]