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Rahul Matthan

Mint columnist

Rahul Matthan is a partner at Trilegal and the author of ‘The Third Way: India’s Revolutionary Approach to Data Governance’. His X handle is @matthan.

ARTICLES BY RAHUL MATTHAN

In professions that still train their people on the job the real purpose of work is not just its completion, but the skills that accrue from doing it. (AI-generated)

Mathematics and law practice are caught in the same AI trap

4 min read . 15 Sept 2026

Humans need to stop presenting AI as flattering reflections of ourselves and better understand the alien ways in which they function.

Rahul Matthan: Why we can’t explain AI actions through a human frame

4 min read . 08 Sept 2026

As good as the Reva was, it too eventually ran out of road and became a footnote in history. (Bloomberg)

India is innovative—but we mustn’t starve new ideas to death

4 min read . 01 Sept 2026

India must craft its own legislative markup language, but, in doing so, should learn from global experience.

Empower citizens: India should make every law easy to look up

4 min read . 25 Aug 2026

Even before AI models became as powerful as they now are, we worried about what might happen if they went rogue. (istockphoto)

Why AI agents may need to be raised rather than programmed

4 min read . 18 Aug 2026

While OpenAI may have prevailed against ANI in this instance, other courts in India may potentially take a less forgiving stance under different circumstances. (REUTERS)

The ‘OpenAI vs ANI’ court ruling offers relief but not a durable solution

4 min read . 11 Aug 2026

Amid the hype around announcements of open-weight models, what often gets obscured is that model weights are only part of the story. (REUTERS)

Open-weight AI models are here but why are they so difficult to use?

4 min read . 04 Aug 2026

If software can be taken down merely because it possesses features that are 'capable of being exploited' to evade surveillance, where will this line of reasoning end?

India’s Bitchat takedown might be its biggest own-goal yet in tech regulation

4 min read . 28 Jul 2026

In most instances, the reason AI fails is that it is answering questions that don’t need answering. (AI-generated)

AI in healthcare: ask what doctors need done, not what technology can do

4 min read . 21 Jul 2026

This was supposed to be the most precise World Cup ever. (Getty Images via AFP)

Football VAR: how technology could hurt the credibility of decisions

4 min read . 14 Jul 2026

What really holds corporations in check are the human beings who operate them. (Reuters)

A company run by AI without any humans at all? It’s a flawed idea

4 min read . 07 Jul 2026

If the technology we create cannot be rolled back, we must build safeguards alongside it.

Glowing petunias are a risk signal: programmable biology calls for regulation

4 min read . 30 Jun 2026

India needs a structural reimagination of how our laws are organized and presented.

Jan Vishwas: India needs a single source of truth for all its laws

4 min read . 23 Jun 2026

Greater friction is often confused with better security.

Password memory maze: how passkeys can relieve us of lock-out hazards

4 min read . 16 Jun 2026

New technologies unlock workflows that were once impossible, but results come from learning how to use the technology oneself. (AI-generated)

Legal muddle: lawyers are at risk of adopting AI in ways that won’t help much

5 min read . 09 Jun 2026

Liability should be traceable, not absolute. (istockphoto)

Agentic AI: we must keep track of who deployed which AI agents

4 min read . 02 Jun 2026

Attempting to ban AI-use for writing, as many are keen to do, would be futile. (istockphoto)

Commonwealth prize: What does it mean if AI can write as well as humans?

5 min read . 26 May 2026

The physical Aadhaar card was never designed for to be used as an identity card and lacks tamper-resistant features that would have made it hard to duplicate. (MINT_PRINT)

What explains India’s uproar over Aadhaar stored in Google Wallets?

4 min read . 19 May 2026

The wholesale e-rupee is a central bank digital currency issued by RBI for commercial banks to use among themselves. (Reuters)

Fintech must evolve: use RBI’s e-rupee platform to tokenize sovereign debt

5 min read . 12 May 2026

Examples like the pausing of mirror-life research cannot be used as a model for AI policy. (REUTERS)

Risky research has been paused before—so why can't AI mavens restrain risky AI?

4 min read . 05 May 2026