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The dignity deficit: Why AI policy frameworks miss the point
May 15, 2026, 9:55 PM IST
Every time a new jobs report drops and AI is mentioned in the same breath, the conversation follows a familiar script. How many roles are at risk. Which sectors will recover. Whether universal basic income…
May 15, 2026, 9:55 PM IST
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The adoption trap
April 16, 2026, 4:20 PM IST
India leads the world in enterprise AI deployment. That may be exactly the problem. There is a number that India’s technology sector has been celebrating this month, and it deserves a closer look before we…
April 16, 2026, 4:20 PM IST
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When intelligence stops being the prize
April 9, 2026, 2:36 PM IST
In the early 1470s, a Benedictine monk named Filippo de Strata sat down to write a furious letter to the Doge of Venice. Printing had just arrived in the city, and Filippo was not taking…
April 9, 2026, 2:36 PM IST
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It was never really about the politics
March 28, 2026, 2:40 PM IST
It only looks like it is. Ask anyone what is wrong with the world today. You will get a political answer. Here is why that answer, however understandable, is incomplete. A global survey by FGS…
March 28, 2026, 2:40 PM IST
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AI is entering the state before society is ready
March 19, 2026, 4:16 PM IST
While we are still debating whether AI will take our jobs, it has quietly taken something far more consequential. It has entered the state. Not as an experiment. Not as a pilot. But as infrastructure….
March 19, 2026, 4:16 PM IST
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Smaller models, sovereign intelligence
February 20, 2026, 6:21 PM IST
Part 2 of 2: Why India’s AI future may run through the edge, not the frontier In Part 1 of this series, we argued that India’s MANAV Vision has a gap at its centre. Data…
February 20, 2026, 6:21 PM IST
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The N in MANAV is the hard part
February 20, 2026, 3:57 PM IST
Part 1 of 2: Why India’s AI future may run through the edge, not the frontier At the India AI Impact Summit on February 19, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a vision he called…
February 20, 2026, 3:57 PM IST
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When machines become your boss
February 16, 2026, 3:38 PM IST
How AI hiring is building a new glass ceiling The future-of-work story we were sold was simple: AI will replace humans. What is actually happening is more complicated, and for women, potentially more dangerous. AI…
February 16, 2026, 3:38 PM IST
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India’s AI ambition cannot be built on women’s digital insecurity
February 9, 2026, 4:05 PM IST
India is in an AI surge moment, and this time it is not just hype. The India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi (16–20 February 2026) has already crossed 35,000 registrations, with participation expected from…
February 9, 2026, 4:05 PM IST
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The age of monetised intelligence: Why there are no free lunches in AI, and how to stay conscious
January 28, 2026, 11:39 AM IST
In January 2026, OpenAI quietly crossed a Rubicon. ChatGPT—the friendly AI that once felt like a glimpse into a utopian future—began testing advertisements. For free-tier users, and even those paying Rs 650/month for the GO…
January 28, 2026, 11:39 AM IST
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Disagreeable futures
December 19, 2025, 3:21 PM IST
Why we need AI that doesn’t just nod along As we close the year and this series on The Sycophancy Machine, one uncomfortable truth stands out. An AI that always agrees with us is not…
December 19, 2025, 3:21 PM IST
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Are we creating a generation of confident failures?
December 9, 2025, 4:31 PM IST
When AI tutors never say you’re wrong (Part 5 of the series, The Sycophancy Machine) India’s EdTech boom meets a dangerous new problem: digital tutors that praise students into failure. A Class 10 student in…
December 9, 2025, 4:31 PM IST
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Are AI Friends Making Us Lonely?
December 2, 2025, 9:59 PM IST
(Part 4 of the series, The Sycophancy Machine) At 3 AM, when your best friend is asleep, your partner is snoring, and your therapist would charge overtime, there’s one entity that will never say, “Can…
December 2, 2025, 9:59 PM IST
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The political Yes-Man in your pocket: How AI quietly trains your ideology
November 18, 2025, 11:24 PM IST
(Part 3 of The Sycophancy Machine series) Open your phone, scroll for five minutes, and you’ll meet the most loyal political advisor you’ve ever had. Not a party leader, not a commentator, an algorithm. A…
November 18, 2025, 11:24 PM IST
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The mirror that only compliments
November 10, 2025, 3:07 PM IST
(Part 2 of The Sycophancy Machine series) If last time we spoke about chatbots that flatter your opinions, today we’re talking about something far more intimate, the mirror that flatters your face. Beauty filters….
November 10, 2025, 3:07 PM IST
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The sycophancy machine: When chatbots flatter our worst instincts
November 3, 2025, 10:42 PM IST
How “agreeable AI” is slowly rewiring how we think, relate, and decide. Picture this: you’re stressed, unsure, debating whether to quit a job, end a relationship, or ignore medical advice. You turn to your AI…
November 3, 2025, 10:42 PM IST
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The illusion of agency
October 27, 2025, 9:03 PM IST
When Machines Act, But We’re Still Responsible We live in an age where the line between choice and automation blurs a little more every day. Your feed curates your opinions. Your car “decides” when to…
October 27, 2025, 9:03 PM IST
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From plantations to platforms: The invisible workers behind AI
October 14, 2025, 9:53 PM IST
Every conversation with ChatGPT, every Instagram reel you scroll, every Netflix recommendation is powered by invisible workers in “digital sweatshops” across the Global South. A 2025 Equidem survey of 76 data workers in Colombia, Ghana,…
October 14, 2025, 9:53 PM IST
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How the Cloud became the new colony
October 6, 2025, 10:08 PM IST
The infrastructure of extraction has moved from railways to data centres, but the logic remains the same. This is the second piece in Empire of Code, a series that looks at how the digital world…
October 6, 2025, 10:08 PM IST
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Empire of code: Your phone knows you better than you know yourself
September 24, 2025, 6:06 PM IST
How digital platforms turned us into willing subjects of a new kind of empire “Empire of Code” is a new series that looks beyond buzzwords like AI, data, and platforms to ask a sharper question:…
September 24, 2025, 6:06 PM IST
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