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Does AI Copy?

It's easy to overlook how much this AI will challenge the ways in which copyright law protects the rights of artists over their works. We are going to have to re-think a lot of what we have taken for granted.

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Existential Angst

Every time a new technology comes around it threatens the status quo. Incumbents protest against it worried about the effect that it will have on their profession and their livelihood. But most technological change creates new opportunities that require us to learn new skills. The current AI revolut

Your Face is Your Boarding Pass

I strongly believe that no matter how repugnant a technology might sound at first blush, I need to try it out myself before forming a firm opinion. When I don't I find that my implicit biases colour my judgment - to the point where I assume the worst before giving it a chance. As a commentator on...

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Alt Big Tech

There are rumblings about the role that self-regulatory organisations play in India’s digital public ecosystems and the concerns that they may become the problem they are solving. But these new organisations offer much needed balance to the regulatory architecture of digital systems.

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Momentous Change

Are we going to see a transformation in search. And consequently all of tech as we know it?

Ex Machina 2022: A Year in Review

In the very first article of the year, 2022 , I set out my predictions for the year ahead. I thought that much of our work would have to do with converting the data protection law needs to be converted into a regulatory regime. I also believed that there will be a range of new technology reform...

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Looking Back

In my very first article of the year I predicted that 2022 would be a busy year for tech policy. I was basing my prediction on the progress that had b...

Idea Factories

There are basically two types of entrepreneurs — and they are each very different from each other. We tend to conflate them into one, expecting more than any one of them is capable of delivering. Unless identify which is which and moderate our expectations appropriately we will always end up being d