AI, Defence and Security
How AI is entering defence, policing and national security, and what it puts at risk.
Autonomous and AI-enabled weapons · Military use of commercial models · Policing, surveillance and facial recognition · Cyber operations and AI-assisted attack · Export controls on models and compute · Accountability for machine-assisted decisions
AI and Society
What AI is doing to public life, to institutions and to the people who deal with them.
Elections, information and manipulation · Work, skills and displacement · Education and assessment · Courts and access to justice · Automated decisions in welfare and public services · Bias, exclusion and who carries the cost
AI, Climate and Environment
The physical footprint of AI, and the uses of AI in environmental governance.
Data centres, energy and water · Siting, land and local communities · Disclosure and measurement of AI emissions · Hardware supply chains and electronic waste · AI in climate modelling and monitoring · Environmental law applied to compute
AI Regulation and Frontier Technology
The rules being written for AI, and whether they hold as the technology moves.
India’s emerging AI framework · Comparative regulation and extraterritorial effect · Liability, copyright and data protection · Standards, audit and assurance · Frontier models, agents and evaluation · Compute, semiconductors and technology geopolitics
Five Programmes of Focused Inquiry
Independent Research. Clear Evidence. Real-World Relevance.
We study how AI governance works in practice — from the rules being written to the institutions applying them and the people living with their consequences.
Latest Insights.
Research, analysis and perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of AI in today's world.
In Their Best Interests: A Review of the Legal Framework on Children’s Digital Safety in India
This report examines how Indian laws address digital harms to children and proposes principles to inform the development of children's digital safety frameworks, including regulatory and industry-led approaches.
Mandate 2026: Ten Legal Reforms for AI Governance in India
Structural institutional blueprints for independent AI oversight and executive accountability.
Beyond Algorithmic Governance: The Implications of Automated Administration
Examining administrative discretion, constitutional checks, and algorithmic due process.
Comments on the Reserve Bank of India’s Discussion Paper on Digital Payments
Submission of Comments on Curbing Payment Frauds & Safeguards in Digital Lending frameworks.
The Judicial Transparency Index & Algorithmic Disclosure
Assessing disclosure of information and algorithmic tools by the Supreme Court and High Courts in India.
Setting Interoperability in Motion: Reimagining Transit Payments
Open Architectures, Digital Public Infrastructure, and Automated Mobility Governance in India.
Latest Dispatches & Analysis
The Dichotomy of Progress: AI’s Water Footprint in a Drought Year
India is grappling with an enormous spectre of drought. Monsoon this year ended with a rainfall deficit of roughly 13%. […]
The Right to Explanation in Algorithmic Decision-Making: A Fundamental Guarantee of Digital Governance
Artificial intelligence increasingly influences decisions about employment, credit, education, access to public services and other matters that shape people’s lives. […]
Seven Tests for a Rights Safeguard Against Algorithmic Exclusion
There is no freestanding human right to use artificial intelligence in the general international human rights instruments discussed here. The […]
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Frontier Model Compute Thresholds & Sovereign AI Safety2
Dr. Elena Rostova analyzes the technical enforcement of frontier compute thresholds, hardware verification standards, and algorithmic compression factors.
Autonomous CBRN Risk & Model Safeguards
Sovereign Silicon Diplomacy & Export Controls
Frontier Model Compute Thresholds & Sovereign AI Safety
AI governance is being written in a small number of places and applied in a great many.
We study what happens in between.
India first. The wider Global South alongside it.
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