Artificial Intelligence: Impact and Governance

High Tech Geopolitics
Written By Shrikrishna Upadhyaya

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Published on March 11, 2024

Executive Note

The Takshashila Institution organised a conference on 14th February 2024 to understand Artificial Intelligence's impact and governance. Takshashila's in-house scholars, Satya S Sahu, Shrikrishna Upadhyaya, Sridhar Krishna, Bharat Sharma, Saurabh Todi and  Bharath Reddy, presented papers covering diverse themes related to Artificial Intelligence. Shambhavi Naik chaired the conference. This document is a compendium of the four working papers presented at the conference. 

In the first paper, Satya S Sahu and Shrikrishna Upadhyaya comprehensively analyse India's AI regulatory framework, emphasising the diverse policies, frameworks, and guidelines that contribute to its structure. They also analyse AI regulations in various jurisdictions, such as the US, UK, EU, and China, and identify convergent and divergent trends. The analysis reveals how varying priorities, strategies, and stages of legislative development shape the landscape.

In his paper, Sridhar Krishna assesses the legitimacy of concerns about Artificial Intelligence displacing jobs on a large scale. After reviewing relevant literature on the subject, he advocates for proactive measures, suggesting that preparing for the future involves staying ahead of the AI wave. He emphasises the importance of focusing on tasks that AI cannot perform and adapting to new endeavours when AI achieves significant breakthroughs.

Bharat Sharma and Saurabh Todi analyse the current global governance landscape concerning key technologies and identify valuable lessons applicable to the governance of artificial intelligence. Their analysis indicates the need for a nimble and recommendatory approach towards AI, allowing room for regulations to evolve into more direct, targeted, and binding measures as the technology matures.

In the concluding paper, Bharath Reddy explores how Artificial Intelligence can augment state capacity. The paper breaks down government processes and assesses them based on transaction volume and discretion. The paper identifies specific areas where AI systems can effectively augment state capacity through this analysis.

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Bharat Sharma
Bharat Sharma

Bharat is a Research Analyst working with the Indo-Pacific Studies Programme at The Takshashila Institution, where he studies the role of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) and its place within the international system.

Satya Shoova Sahu
Satya Shoova Sahu

Satya is a Research Analyst with the High-tech Geopolitics programme at Takshahsila. His research primarily focuses on Technology policy, Semiconductor Geopolitics, and AI Governance. He also curates the HTG programme’s flagship newsletter, Technopolitik.
A graduate of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, he has completed Takshashila’s GCPP (Technology and Policy) and now teaches modules on semiconductors, AI governance, and responsible strategy in the same course.

Sridhar Krishna
Sridhar Krishna

Sridhar Krishna is a Senior Scholar at the Takshashila Institution where he led the 20 million jobs project before joining the group researching on AI Governance. He graduated from BITS, Pilani and has an MBA from SP Jain, Mumbai. He also works with ambitious young IT firms helping them scale and with a civil society organisation on judicial reform. Till recently, he was a Managing Director at Accenture where he worked on analytics and AI.

Shrikrishna Upadhyaya
Shrikrishna Upadhyaya

Shrikrishna works as the Knowledge Manager at The Takshashila Institution. His role involves building knowledge management capacities for research and policy verticals to enable effective conservation, discovery and growth of knowledge, and also managing public engagement on policy output.

Saurabh Todi
Saurabh Todi

Saurabh tracks the geopolitics of emerging technologies, especially in biotechnology and nuclear power. His research interests also include export controls, WMD issues, and the geostrategic dynamic between India, China, and the United States. He manages the Network for Advanced Study of Technology Geopolitics (NAST) Fellowship at the Takshashila Institution and is a consultant with Inklude Labs.

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