Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra

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.

The 2025 Paris AI Summit marked a shift from global to national AI strategies. This paper explores India’s and Singapore’s AI governance, offering insights for the EU, with a focus on Germany, on cooperating with these emerging AI powers to advance ethical, sustainable AI.

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.

Governments and tech companies worldwide periodically clash over what content is acceptable to post online and who gets to decide. As states exert legal, economic, and political pressure on social media platforms and users to control online conversations, the platforms frequently seek to push back.

'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 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?'