Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra

This chapter explores how India’s AI laws address six facets of free expression—defamation, explicit content, hate speech, political content, copyright, and privacy—and contrasts them with global frameworks, proposing ways to foster AI-driven growth that balances ethics and efficiency.

AI governance is shifting, with national priorities outweighing global coordination. To uphold its leadership in rights-respecting and innovation-friendly AI, the European Union must strengthen its domestic capabilities, expand international partnerships, and assert its regulatory influence.

This chapter examines multi-platform and multi-discourse political messaging during the 2019 Indian General Elections by India's two largest political parties. It demonstrates how multi-platform partisan messaging enables certain discursive and leadership styles for voter outreach and mobilization.

The outcome of India’s 2024 national elections will define its future course as a democracy. Examined are the key factors and trends likely to influence India’s politics and policies in the coming years.

'In Focus' Interview with The Hindu on different forms of content moderation, factors that influence it, and comparing different legal frameworks across the world on regulating content moderation and how this impacts state-platform-civil society power dynamics and relations. Also available on Spotify.

Mass surveillance in public transport systems, touted for safety of passengers, can violate their rights when intrusive AI-enabled Facial Recognition Technology is used. India is deploying such tech in large scale. Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra comments on the risks and suggests a countermeasure in this article.

Organiser: Heinrich Böll Foundation Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra (Speaker)

Invited Speaker at the Panel on defending threats to democracies in Europe from hybrid threats including information and cognitive warfare and building defence and deterrence capabilities to deal with new-age threats and challenges to democracy from autocratic regimes.

Organiser: European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra (Speaker)

Invited speaker at EADI's Jubilee Event discussing 'From worldwide democratisation to democratic recession and geopolitical conflicts:
what do development researchers have to say?'