Aman Bandvi

Exploring AI, cognitive security & human agency. Indic intelligence for the age of intelligent machines. Futurist | Author | Speaker

[Harshmit Singh @harshbandvi]

High time that world leaders resolve to change the calendar system to Ache Din (A.D.) from Anno Domini (A.D.).
2014 marks the year that the world received salvation.
#achedin #vishwaguru #logicdistancing #annodomini

[Aman Bandvi @AmanBandvi]

Another gem - this is #AI used for #impact - well done @anuragteewari

[Anurag @anuragteewari]

प्रकाश भारती - एपिसोड 02

रिपोर्ट आने तक भोजन सुरक्षित माना जाएगा।
बाक़ी, खाते समय खाने पर ध्यान दें… कमियों पर नहीं।

देश देख रहा है, हम भी।

#PrakashBharati #Episode02

[Aman Bandvi @AmanBandvi]

@nramind Sanity prevails?

[Aman Bandvi @AmanBandvi]

A fresh change from the noise masquerading as news these days.
Well done @anuragteewari - hope the nudge shakes #journalism to resurrect itself. @NotProsaicview @samitakaur74 @anusehgal @kbssidhu1961

[Anurag @anuragteewari]

Here is the first episode of my new IP series, PRAKASH BHARATI.

Our first bulletin crossed 300K views on Instagram in under 12 hours.

A fictional 80s-style Indian news network reporting on things that feel a little too familiar.

#PrakashBharati #Satire #aifilm #IndianTelevision #80sAesthetic #80sTrend

[Aman Bandvi @AmanBandvi]

Chakravyuh - We are Abhimanyu now — every one of us. We know exactly how to open the app. Nobody had to teach us. What nobody profits from teaching us is how to leave.

We were taught how to enter. No one profits from teaching us how to leave.
https://t.co/gzQ8PRbq36

[Aman Bandvi @AmanBandvi]

The alarm is right; the villain is wrong. Gmail, LinkedIn, DPS registers; we've had long before ChatGPT. The sin isn't the photo, it's consent-by-design. Awareness is easy; liability is the yajña still unfinished. @anusehgal @NotProsaicview @lokkalyandas @rajkapoor1962

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

You all are uploading your photos to ChatGPT for a silly trend? Are you all not aware how desperate these AI companies are for this data? Are you not aware that OpenAI and other such AI companies are selling their services to defence departments of countries who are waging wars? Are you not aware that your data will be used to train their models for facial recognition? Are you not aware that various governments, including the union and state governments in India, and its police departments are weaponising facial recognition to surveil citizens?

[Aman Bandvi @AmanBandvi]

@samitakaur74 Those were our songs! Old 60/90 cassettes - if in Chd, we had Melody House/Deepak Radios... late 80's...

[Aman Bandvi @AmanBandvi]

Delivered the keynote at India #DataProtection Summit 2026!

One law. Three power equations. Infinite questions.
Build for revocation. Audit your vendors. Collaborate.
India built digital infrastructure at scale. Now build trust at scale.

#DPDP @ConsentEra @rajkapoor1962

[Smoke-away @SmokeAwayyy]

Rules to live by:

1. Any data you send to a closed AI model is no longer your data.

2. Any data you send through an AI Router is no longer your data.

3. Any data you send to a free service is no longer your data.

[Aman Bandvi @AmanBandvi]

May be music to some ears!

[Superman @thesupermannx]

Researchers proved vegetarians are 2x more likely to be depressed.

Brazilian researchers tracked 14,216 adults and found meat-free eaters had 2X the rate of depressive episodes compared to meat eaters.

For years, plant-based diets have been heavily marketed as the ultimate cheat code for longevity, wellness, and mental clarity.

So why are the numbers showing the exact opposite?

Nutrition scientists point to critical biological missing links. Elimination diets often strip away essential micronutrientsm, like bioavailable B12, iron, zinc, and omega-3 fatty acids, that are heavily concentrated in animal products and crucial for neurological function and mood regulation.

When you starve the brain of the specific building blocks it evolved to run on, mental health takes the hit.

The wellness narrative loves to sell a clean, one-size-fits-all moral purity.

But biology doesn't care about your ideology.

If your diet leaves your brain starved of what it actually needs to function, no amount of green juice is going to fix the chemistry.

Sometimes, the trend that promises to make you feel better is quietly destroying your mind.

[How To Prompt @HowToPrompt__]

This paper answers why psychopaths keep ending up as CEOs and politicians.

Researchers mapping out the mechanics of "successful psychopathy" found that corporate capitalism and modern political selection systems are not neutral.

They are hyper-efficient filtering machines.

And they are specifically optimized to select for the exact traits normal people find repulsive.

Normal leaders are constrained by empathy, guilt, and long-term risk aversion. They hesitate when a decision hurts people. They feel the weight of collateral damage.

Psychopaths don’t have an emotional brake pedal.

When a company or a political party needs someone to ruthlessly slash budgets, fire thousands of people, bluff through a crisis, or project absolute, unshakeable confidence, normal candidates stutter.

Psychopaths step right up.

Their superficial charm, pathological fearlessness, and total lack of remorse look identical to "strong leadership" during an interview or a campaign.

They weaponize corporate chaos. While everyone else is panicking, they ruthlessly manipulate the narrative, step over their peers, and take credit for the wins.

They weaponize charisma to dazzle the board or the voters, and hide their emptiness behind a mask of high performance.

The system rewards the ruthlessness, promotes them to the top, and punishes anyone who tries to slow them down with ethics.

The researchers call it a feedback loop of structural decay.

Corporations and governments built an environment where being entirely devoid of a conscience isn't a disqualifier.

It’s a competitive advantage.

[Pushmeet Kohli @pushmeet]

1/5 🧬 Today, our team @GoogleDeepMind is taking another step on our mission of deciphering the genome. We are releasing AlphaGenome Atlas, a massive (petabyte-scale) resource containing AlphaGenome predictions for every possible single-letter DNA change in the human genome — 9 billion in total.

https://t.co/Lf9DWRfWCu

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

AlphaGenome Atlas is an interactive resource, mapping the predicted impact of all 9 billion DNA variants.

It works in a regular web browser, without any coding required, and is free for academic researchers. Excited for the discoveries to come.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

Your brain doesn't care about your intentions.

It cares about your repetitions.

Repetition shapes your reality.

[Mukhsin Mukhtorov @mukh_higgsfield]

I have built the FIRST complete 3D Observable Brain in history.

cc: A years-long project by HHMI Janelia, Google Research, and collaborators.

[Samita Kaur @samitakaur74]

Still no action taken on ground zero…… shame is all I can say . We need action on ground zero before 450th Foundation Anniversary of Amritsar.
All we ask for is the old walled city of Amritsar to be cleaned, our most sacred space deteriorating and Bhagtanwala landfill 1500 metres from Darbar Sahib.
@CPCB_OFFICIAL @vikramsahney @CMOPbIndia @PMOIndia @PargatSOfficial @jeevanjyot20
@Reena_Guptaa @ambkcsingh @kbssidhu1961 @HVSBanwait @sardesairajdeep @RuchikaMKhanna @grewal_sharma @dc_amritsar

[Superman @thesupermannx]

MIT mathematically proved that AI will destroy the democracy.

A Nobel-winning MIT economist published a terrifying paper called "Automation and Repression"

As AI and automation replace human labor, wealth concentrates heavily in the hands of a tiny group of capital owners. Inequality skyrockets.

When inequality hits a critical mass, workers realize they are being crushed and the threat of a popular revolt spikes.

Faced with that threat, the ruling elite are forced to make a choice.

They can redistribute the wealth through taxes, or they can use force to keep people down.

The paper mathematically proves a dark reality: there is a direct, inescapable link between automation and political repression.

The more capital accumulates through AI, the more the elite prefer repression over redistribution.

Why? Because sharing the wealth cuts into their power. Funding a police state protects it.

It gets worse.

The authors modeled what happens when an economy starts inside a clean, stable democracy.

As automation advances and capital concentrates at the top, the math shows that the elite eventually find democracy to be a liability.

They stop supporting democratic systems. They back a coup. They install a repressive system just to protect their automated wealth.

Nobody is voting to end democracy.

The technology’s economic incentives just make authoritarian control the logical next step for survival.

[Divya Goyal @divya5521]

•Nur Jahan was not "just" Jahangir's wife, she was more....

•Married daughters, not just sons, can also take care of old parents..

•Why girls should only play with kitchen sets? Why not cars, planes like boys?

Read, how the revamped textbooks in Punjab govt schools, are smashing gender bias:

https://t.co/Ano9ZvbrNC

[Sann @san_x_m]

3 of the biggest academic publishers in the world sued a photocopy shop.

The shop charged 50 paise a page. It sat inside a university campus in Delhi and had 1 owner.

The case ran for 4 years. The shop won, and the law changed.

His name is Dharampal Singh.

He set up Rameshwari Photocopy Service in 1998, in a small licensed space inside the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi.

The work was simple. Professors would prepare a reading list. For a course like Agrarian Sociology, that might mean 33 different readings, scattered across 33 different books, most of which cost more than a student's monthly budget and some of which the library had 1 copy of.

Singh photocopied the relevant chapters, bound them together, and sold the bundle. It was called a course pack. The price was 50 paise per page.

That is less than 1 American cent.

He explained it in 1 sentence. If a student needs 33 readings for a course, he said, it could take months to collect them from different books. I make life easier for students by giving them all the material in 1 pack.

In August 2012, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor and Francis filed suit in the Delhi High Court against the shop and against the University of Delhi. They wanted a permanent injunction.

By the end of 2012 the court had granted a temporary one. A commissioner was sent to the shop without warning, made an inventory, and seized copies.

Then something unusual happened.

Students organised. 2 groups, one of students and one for educational access, formally applied to join the case as defendants, on the side of the photocopy shop. The court allowed it.

In March 2013, 309 authors and academics from around the world wrote an open letter to the publishers asking them to withdraw the case.

33 of those 309 had written the very books whose copyright was allegedly being infringed.

The authors were siding with the shop copying their books.

On 16th September 2016, Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw dismissed the suit entirely. He wrote that copyright in literary works is not an inevitable, divine or natural right conferring absolute ownership on authors.

The publishers appealed. On 9th December 2016, a 2 judge bench of the Delhi High Court delivered the final ruling.

It held that reproducing copyrighted material for the purpose of educational instruction is not infringement under Indian law, and that no licence or permission from the publisher is required for a course pack, however much of the book is copied, as long as it is justified by teaching.

Then the publishers withdrew from the case entirely.

The shop is still there.

The next time you are told that intellectual property law always favours whoever has the most expensive lawyers, remember that 3 of the largest publishers on Earth spent 4 years trying to shut down a photocopy shop charging half a rupee a page.

And lost.

[Aman Bandvi @AmanBandvi]

@anupriya_nagar_ @taran_adarsh Keep rising. Best wishes @anupriya_nagar_