An Indian company wants to record our homes for AI. Who’s responsible if things go wrong?

Nikhil PahwaET CONTRIBUTORS
May 31, 2026 | 13:40 IST
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The world, us included, is becoming training data for AI, for which we’re unprotected



There’s a reason why the grid of images that pops up online, when you’re trying to gain access to a website or ‘prove that you’re human’, makes you identify motorcycles, bus­es or zebra crossings. Your labour of picking the right image is being used to train the AI that will drive driverless cars. Our email messages are pro­bably used to train AI that provides auto-complete. The fact is that all aro­und digital space, what we do, and how we do things, are used to train AI.
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