Deepak Disagrees

Tanuj believes the AI hype train has gone too far. But is he being too short-sighted? Can AI really replace humans en masse? And what do terms like 'intelligent' and 'conscious' actually mean?

Tanuj is the head of People+AI, an AI initiative under the EkStep Foundation. He works on policy issues related to AI, digital identity, payments, data protection, and drones. In a previous life, he was a venture capitalist and an entrepreneur.

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Nitin Pai believes we do not regulate social media enough. But what about free speech? Who decides what we allow? And does it really threaten the edifices of democracy

Nitin is the co-founder and director of the Takshashila Institution, an independent think tank and school of public policy based in Bangalore. He dabbles in everything from high tech geopolitics, synthetic biology, space, defence economics, maritime strategy and ethical reasoning.

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Manoj Kewalramani believes the right to artistic expression must be absolute. But what is art? How is it different from speech? And why does the right to swing your fist end where my nose begins?

Manoj spent two decades in India's best news organizations before becoming the head of China Studies at the Takshashila Institution.

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