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Dear Reader,
Generative AI has been touted to transform the way we work, think and live. A tool that will impact everything and everyone, and potentially outthink and outdo human capacities. However, this very power also raises questions about the adverse impact of AI, if it is not regulated and guard rails built, so that it works for the larger human good.
In the final part of a three-part series, The India Forum argues that the world has been behind the curve in moving to mitigate the ugly fallouts of Generative AI. For instance, its potential to replace jobs, giving rise to anxieties that it could pave the way for a situation where “job destruction will exceed job creation” leading to social disaffection and unrest. It urges a policy that enables AI to work for the larger cause of humanity without becoming a “barrier to innovation.”
In a significant development for news media around the globe, MediaNama notes that Google may be on the cusp of beginning to pay news publishers for using their content on its platforms in Canada, though the final details are yet unclear.
If this goes through, and Google is persuaded to pay for content, it has the potential to have enormous implications for news media everywhere, including in India. It creates a template for content creators to be paid by Big Tech for their journalism. It will begin to address the lament that Big Tech short-changes the content creators by using their content without even a cursory by-your-leave.
The judicial system in India is beset with challenges. Colossal pendency, the diversity in the composition of judges and improving access to the courts for ordinary citizens, are all issues that the Courts are grappling with.
Justice S K Kaul, of the Supreme Court of India, talks to Supreme Court Observer on these challenges and how technology, mediation, and the reform of legal education are imperative in bringing the Courts nearer the citizens.
And, the story of homelessness in the national capital, right under the noses of the elite and the powerful, is a tale hidden in plain sight. Unnoticed, unheard and unwashed, they live on the streets of Delhi with pain and anguish beyond words. The homeless in Delhi are deprived of a livelihood, shooed away from the Mohalla clinics and afraid to go to the night shelters, the ‘rain basera’, for fear of violence, as the shelters have become a haven for crime and criminals. The Probe investigates and documents the plight and travails of Delhi’s homeless.
For more such stories from the grantees this week, please read on.
Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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