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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

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

If insurers move beyond crude broad-based assumptions and price risk at granular levels, they can offer premiums healthy cohorts might find worth paying. (istockphoto)

How health data and AI can deepen India’s insurance penetration

4 min read . 28 Apr 2026

Quantum computing puts at risk India's foundational digital infrastructure. (Fortinet)

Quantum leaps have set a clock ticking on encryption: DPI must adapt fast

4 min read . 21 Apr 2026

The moment it announced that it had identified all these vulnerabilities, Anthropic painted a big target on its back. (REUTERS)

Why Anthropic’s Mythos AI should evoke concerns of digital sovereignty

4 min read . 14 Apr 2026

One of the amendments proposed will extend the applicability of certain provisions to ordinary users who share news or current affairs content.

Online liberty is at stake: India’s new proposals for IT rules need a rethink

4 min read . 07 Apr 2026

The Hormuz squeeze has not just affected the global energy trade, but several other elements of the supply chains that hold the world together. (AFP)

Chain shudders: The Hormuz clamp has rattled the world of technology

4 min read . 31 Mar 2026

What the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) does today, every other authority that issues digital documents can do as well. (MINT)

Notary attestations are outdated—why do we still insist on them?

4 min read . 24 Mar 2026

Historically, every successful industrial economy has passed through the same transition: labour first moves from farms to factories and then into services. (istockphoto)

India’s need of the moment: A farm revolution led by AI-driven automation

4 min read . 17 Mar 2026

Why India should leverage its data for AI gains before it's too late

4 min read . 10 Mar 2026

Frontier AI models can now translate a plain-English description into working software.

AI is going exponential in what it enables: What it means for us

4 min read . 03 Mar 2026

Unlike Bletchley Park, the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi was not only much larger and more crowded, the mood was also markedly more upbeat. (AFP)

The AI summit placed a spotlight on India’s role in AI diffusion

4 min read . 24 Feb 2026

Any AI system that helps identify the cure for a disease can just as easily be used to identify chemical and biological agents that can make us ill. (istockphoto)

Autonomous AI labs promise illness cures but could spawn lethal stuff too

4 min read . 17 Feb 2026

Countless whales were killed to obtain ambergris, a waxy substance produced by sperm whales to protect their digestive tract from indigestible debris. (istockphoto)

How AI advances will relieve us of the need to extract stuff from animals

4 min read . 10 Feb 2026

People can now use AI agents in ways previously not possible. (istockphoto)

The real danger of autonomous AI lies in laws being unable to keep pace

4 min read . 03 Feb 2026

An AI model’s ‘thought process’ is akin to navigating a massive, hyper-dimensional cloud of data. (REUTERS)

Don’t ask AI to explain itself—but put it to scrutiny in a way that works

4 min read . 20 Jan 2026

In a world where it no longer takes decades of painstaking experimentation to invent something new, a 20-year patent is not an incentive but a windfall. (istockphoto)

Rethink patent protection: It’s blocking innovation instead of spurring it

4 min read . 13 Jan 2026

Our current approach to KYC has exponentially expanded our vulnerability to identity theft.

KYC rules have exposed troves of data to identity theft—but tech fixes exist

4 min read . 06 Jan 2026

Even if we do not reach Mars by 2050, we would have by then begun to use space for industrial activity. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Handout via REUTERS)

Tech crystal ball: Will the next 25 years surprise as much as the last 25?

4 min read . 30 Dec 2025

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) should refrain from extending the scope of copyright to the AI training cycle. (istockphoto)

Why AI training doesn’t amount to copyright theft under Indian law

4 min read . 23 Dec 2025

The proposal's approach is likely to do more harm than good to the small creators it is supposed to protect. (istockphoto)

India’s proposal on AI payback for original works: A reverse Robin Hood deal?

4 min read . 16 Dec 2025