A Technologist’s Perspective As someone working at NeGD under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), I’ve had the privilege of engaging with some of the most transformative technologies shaping our digital future. With a technical background and a deep curiosity for emerging tech, I’ve always found myself exploring the frontiers of innovation from… Read more »
India’s escalating proliferation of hyper-realistic “deepfake” audio-visual content, generated through advanced artificial intelligence techniques such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), has intersected profoundly with electoral processes, reputational damages, and gendered forms of abuse. With over 850 million internet users [1]and the world’s largest democracy, India faces acute risks from deepfakes, which can manipulate perceptions on… Read more »
Introduction India stands at the cusp of a transformation. NITI Aayog’s National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (NSAI), highlights how AI can change different sectors, points out the main hurdles to using it, and suggests steps for research, training, wider adoption, and ethical use. Work is ongoing towards providing an accessible AI ecosystem with affordable computing… Read more »
Artificial Intelligence (AI) now underpins tools for learning, governance, and trade, and it is central to India’s aim of inclusive development that respects dignity, rights, and security for over 1.4 billion people. These systems can uplift when designed well, but they can also exclude or misjudge if trained on narrow datasets or deployed without safeguards,… Read more »
