AI is reshaping national power and governance. Drawing on India’s digital public infrastructure, Jayant Sinha and Vasant Dhar discuss sovereignty over compute, data consent, and privacy by design in Episode 103 of Brave New World.
Useful Resources:
1. Jayant Sinha
2. Eversource Capital
3. India’s Green Startups: Jayant Sinha and Sandeep Bhammer
4. Nandan Nilekani
5. Brave New World Episode 15: Nandan Nilekani on an Egalitarian Internet
6. Brave New World Episode 50: Pramod Varma on India’s Digital Empowerment
7. iSpirit
8. Unique Identification Authority Of India
9. Unified Payments Interface
10. M-Pesa
11. DigiYatra.
12. Australia has banned social media for kids under 16.
13. Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture, DEPA
14. Paul Gruenwald, Global Chief Economist, S&P Global
15. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson.
16. Neeraj Chopra
17. Thinking with Machines, The Brave New World of AI: Vasant Dhar
18. Battery Smart
19. Nutrifresh
20. Zero Cow
21. RevFin
22. Upside Foods
23. Brave New World Episode 93: Uma Valeti on Cultivating Meat
24. Brave New World Episode 101: Deepak Chopra On Consciousness and Reality
25. Geoffrey Hinton
26. Asimov’s Laws
27. Jonathan Haidt
28. The Anxious Generation: Jonathan Haidt
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