As technology continues to advance at an unprecedented pace, the legal industry has been struggling to keep up. Lawyers and legal scholars have been grappling with how to address the legal and ethical issues arising from the use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain. One potential solution is to integrate the taxonomies of law and coding. What exactly does that mean? Well, let's start with a taxonomy. In the context of law and coding, a taxonomy refers to the language and categories used to describe legal concepts and technological concepts, respectively. By ..read more

Please note: this article is a long-read. The future of work and innovation, both are some of the most sensitive areas of concern in the times when the fourth industrial revolution is happening, despite a gruesome pandemic. With future of work, societies and governments fear which jobs would exist, and which would not. Artificial Intelligence and Web3 technologies create a similar perception and hence, fear over such dilemmas. Fairly, the focus point of fear is not accurate or astute enough. The narrative across markets is about Generative AI and automation taking over human labour and informa ..read more

This article is co-authored by Poulomi Chatterjee, Contributing Researcher at VLiGTA. Web 2.0 was a significant milestone in the evolution of the internet as it facilitated the rise of decentralized communication. However, Web 3.0 seeks to elevate decentralization to an unprecedented level by empowering end-users with greater control. The centralized nature of Web 2.0, which was dominated by large platforms and aggregators, meant that users had limited control over their data and interactions. In contrast, Web 3.0 leverages decentralized blockchains and smart contracts to create a permissionl ..read more

Please note: this article is a long read. The lack of a standardised approach to data collection, privacy assessment, and controversy surrounding the recent investigations[1] indicate challenges that are not initiating traditional anticompetitive scrutiny.[2] The debate on the intersection between competition law and privacy constitutes a major challenge for the existing competition law framework. The notion of privacy has achieved extensive attention from academics and adjudicators, indicating its dynamic nature.[3] The unprecedented magnitude of data collection could raise challenges for bot ..read more

Today, for the members of the AIM Leaders Council, we had some meaningful discussion on Algorithmic Ethics for Good Business in today's meetup. I had discussed about Being Lawyerly to Build Ethical AI for Business, which was central to the following important points: - Converging Legal and Business Concerns towards Explainable AI - From Audits & Compliance to Conflict and Innovation Management - #Data4Development and Consumer Law Innovations towards Explainable AI In this meet-up, I had joined Ananya Roy from Deloitte. Her points on algorithmic ethics were insightful, especially: - human ..read more

ChatGPT, a sibling model of InstructGPT, has gained much traction recently. With over 1 million users and their interactions with this interesting chat model, the user reactions have amazed discourses on education, public policy, lawyering and many other things. However, the model's success so far is not a pessimistic development when it comes to technology governance. Let's take it this way: there are such technological models, which are evolutionary from a technical aspect. Achieving the edge obviously may be backed by technology hype cycles. However, there is no doubt that ChatGPT is a uniq ..read more

Despite the market volatility attributable to cryptocurrencies, the scope of Web3 technologies and their business models is yet unexplored, especially in the Indian context. Few companies like Polygon, Coinbase India, Binance and others are addressing that. In this article, the purpose of Zero Knowledge System as a method to conduct cryptographic proofs is explored, and some policy questions on whether some ideas and assertions of ZKS can be integrated into the domains of law & policy are addressed, considering the role of India as a leader of the Global South. The Essence of Zero Knowledg ..read more

Introduction The relationship between plagiarism and art can be said to date back to the Roman Empire in 300 B.C, wherein the Roman elites were fascinated by the wealth and culture of Greek cities and demanded works of art which had semblance to Greek culture[1]. To match this demand Greek and Roman artists started making plaster moulds of famous Greek statues filling them with bronze and shipping them to Roman cities where they could be replicated in marble[2]. In the years that followed, things such as relics and artifacts also fell prey to the malpractice of forgery and plagiarism which lea ..read more

We are eager to release the Vidhitsa Law Institute's first technical report, on artificial intelligence hype and its legal-economic risks. Bhavana J Sekhar, Principal Researcher and Poulomi Chatterjee, Contributing Researcher have co-authored this report with me. In this work, we have addressed the issue of hype cycles caused by artificial intelligence technologies in detail. This report is an initial research contribution developed by the team of Vidhitsa Law Institute of Global and Technology Affairs (VLiGTA) as a part of the efforts in the Artificial Intelligence Resilience department. We ..read more

Introduction: Tend and Befriend Responses to Conflict Conflicts are ubiquitous, unavoidable, and almost always uncomfortable. An inevitable consequence of human interaction, conflict, if managed well can be a source of innovation, creativity, growth and meaningful relationships. Any conflict originates from differences. Differences in ideas, values, or perceptions of facts. These differences if not handled well will lead to disagreements, and disagreements if not respectfully managed will lead to disputes which eventually could lead to all-out conflict. If it is escalation of the differences t ..read more