Indic Pacific Legal Research

We are a research firm in tech governance. We specialise in law, tech & global governance in the #IndoPacific. Our brands & orgs: @techindata, @IndianSocietyAI.

[Abhivardhan @IndusThink]

Presenting the AI Transformation Matrix by https://t.co/cHg029y3Sz by @indicpacific and @IndianSocietyAI .

We said, and we did it.

We involved 28 stakeholders to develop India's first ever AI industry diffusion report on Uttar Pradesh.

So here is some revelation. It is a 170-178 page report.

Nobody can read this report which is so long - so we thought - how about we present the problems that a long report like ours is truly addressing?

So, please go to https://t.co/PZ4qLEdN5g and access the first part of the AI Transformation Matrix, which highlights the sub-sectoral areas and the specific problems this report already addresses.

We thank Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay for proposing the idea of an AI Transformation Matrix to our editors.

The complete matrix with micro-recommendations and policy mandate will be released once the report is published.

But yes, the report will be publicised in July 2026.

Until then, please wait. But yes, happy to discuss any of the problems highlighted in the AI Transformation Matrix.

Thank you for your patience everyone!

[Indic Pacific Legal Research @indicpacific]

Our Founder, @IndusThink was quoted by The Ken on "How India is trying to navigate AI copyright’s three-body problem", which by all means, is one of the few media reports with a nuanced and comprehensive take on AI copyright.

Link: https://t.co/B0RZez5Fyn

[Abhivardhan @IndusThink]

Reached 100 citations on Google Scholar. Yay! 😃

7 years of research in AI, Law and Policy.

Glad it is going up finally. 🥹

@adityajakki @sougat18 @AnkitRajBharat @RupakChatto @AkshayNarisetti

[Indic Pacific Legal Research @indicpacific]

Right.

https://t.co/jI9i2mBuI2

[ANI Digital @ani_digital]

India must develop sovereign AI to avoid 'digital colony' risk, says Sarvam AI Co-founder Vivek Raghavan

Read @ANI Story | https://t.co/NtqBPVCO9V

#India #AI #DigitalColony #Sarvam #VivekRaghavan

[Abhivardhan @IndusThink]

What does AI sovereignty mean for India now?

Talking straight from the Bharat Mandapam.

[Indic Pacific Legal Research @indicpacific]

On February 9, 2025, the First Edition of https://t.co/3qp0gbriqc Playbook was donated and gifted to be included in the Library of the @NFSU_Official.

This book was presented by @IndusThink in a Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026, organised by NFSU Gandhinagar.

[Indic Pacific Legal Research @indicpacific]

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[Abhivardhan @IndusThink]

Coming soon, powered by @indicpacific - partly dedicated to @naval :)

Just saying, even healthy skeptics can be true entrepreneurs and pro-AI. :)

And pro-science.

cc @AnkitRajBharat @ravishar313 @HiSohan @Satvik_Pen @adityajakki

[Abhivardhan @IndusThink]

The Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law (@IndianSocietyAI) in collaboration with Data Science and Ai Association of Australia held a highly productive virtual joint dialogue today.

The recording of this session is out now: https://t.co/WTrfAI88T7

The Joint Dialogue focused on exploring a fresher perspective in the Indo-Pacific market, especially India, Australia, Japan and the US - from both legal and industrial perspectives.

1️⃣ China's risk appetite and propensity of AI adoption despite being a fragmented market is interesting

2️⃣ Australia and Japan are perhaps the only Indo-Pacific countries who have created coordinated, soft legal and hard legal efforts in governing AI.

3️⃣ AI Safety Research is correlative to many AI diplomacy efforts which kind of is reflective in the US AI Action Plan and some efforts by the India AI Mission, for instance.

Raymond Sun represented as a Director, DSAI Australia while ISAIL was represented by Abhivardhan, the President.

Bogdan Grigorescu and @deepanshuS27 made excellent points on the industry side of things, especially on tech adoption, skilling and foundational models' strategic value.

A lot of serious interventions were made by Francis P. Crawley, CODATA, Sankalp Srivastava, and Bahadur Shah.

Special thanks to Tamonash Pan and Priyanshi Jain for their support as Rapporteurs to this joint dialogue.

[Indic Pacific Legal Research @indicpacific]

We will do a breakdown of the weaknesses and limits of the bill - which could be plenty but don’t be misled at all.

And these bills have lapsed in the parliament as we understand.

So no need to panic.

[Indic Pacific Legal Research @indicpacific]

You must’ve seen some professionals circulating some National Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Authority bill and a Deepfake bill.

Please note: these were drafted by parliamentarians and not the Union Government (Government of India).

[Abhivardhan @IndusThink]

Happy to announce ⁦@indicpacific⁩’s partnership with GCG led by ⁦@AnkitRajBharat⁩.

More to come. 😁

[Indic Pacific Legal Research @indicpacific]

@IndusThink @Satvik_Pen @nirmalpatel_ @adityajakki @RupakChatto @AKLKO1977 Check the AI inventorship handbook at https://t.co/KY5GZkShbv

[Abhivardhan @IndusThink]

I am often asked, what does @IndicPacific do? It's fun and nice - explained in 3.5 mins.

Congrats to Kailash Chauhan and Bhavana J to lead the development of the Global AI Inventorship Handbook!

cc @Satvik_Pen @nirmalpatel_ @adityajakki @RupakChatto @AKLKO1977

[Abhivardhan @IndusThink]

Same @indicpacific but with a slight change of taste.

A slight logo change.

[Abhivardhan @IndusThink]

We are proud to also present the JuriAide India E-Courts Manual, authored by @vakeelkapil, Ayush Chandra, and yours truly.

Access the Manual at https://t.co/mi8NbHh870

For the first time in India, we at @IndicPacific are eager to launch, perhaps India's first (or at least most-comprehensive) Legal Technology Manual, exclusively for judicial institutions, and not lawyers.

The reasoning is that lawyers are external stakeholders to judicial infrastructure, despite them being "officers of the Court".

With this, we announce the Re-launch of Juriaide LegalTech as the Legal Technology Division within Indic Pacific Legal Research LLP, under the leadership of Kapil Naresh.

[Abhivardhan @IndusThink]

I know that I keep referring about artificial intelligence standardisation, and I understand me referring this becomes so hard to fathom.

What is standardisation in AI? Technology? Regulation? Policy? Business Culture?

I must admit that I had some of the best crowd this year among many of my virtual sessions, from iFEEL - Institute for Future Education Entrepreneurship and Leadership as a part of their AI Awareness Week, where someone asked this crucial question.

Watch the complete video at https://t.co/SXf8QXa3XO

I have also discussed the challenges of making AI a part of employability criteria for companies in case there is some transition from non-AI-relying profession to automation/ AI-reliant work requirements.

This is hard to document, but good to discuss and steelman our perspectives.

Thanks to Sagar Bhadange for inviting me for this lovely session. More such sessions to go for this year.

[Abhivardhan @IndusThink]

Had a short, and sweet trip at lovely Hyderabad this weekend.

At the kind invite of https://t.co/e5YnITK0Vh, and Simrin Kapoor, I had spoke for an audience of developers, people running & building AI workflows, and even those who shaping their focus to get into the AI domain, and product managers at Lamakaan last Saturday.

So, here's what I had discussed: Framework Fatigue in AI Governance.

Across the world, endless regulatory, ethical, legal, market-related and industry-policy documents on artificial intelligence have been published. Sometimes one can lose the count of all of it, even if we get gaga over it.

The fun and sad part of it is that for product managers, AI governance professionals, and even people who build such technologies by any virtue, will not be able to go through every single compliance/ guidance document around AI governance.

Another fun part one must realise is that artificial intelligence governance, irrespective of the impact of the EU AI Act, has facets which are tailor-made, except those which are generalised around data-related and privacy-related practices.

Since every AI system deployed need not be high-risk per se, and the industry is still coping up with the fact that there is no moat around AI right now under the LLM-research pivot (even OpenAI never had one), despite owning too much compute, AI governance practices will diversify.

Through this workshop, I tried my best to emphasise that one cannot deny that just because regulations ain't coming in India on AI, AI governance would be dead.

Not happening. The DPDPA will be implemented, including their rules in months, and not years. There will be adjudicatory issues around AI use. And to face that confusion - one should at least be prepared at a basic level, let's say.

Here's the report I had presented in that session as well, feel free to read it: https://t.co/pucjh0fbur

[Indic Pacific Legal Research @indicpacific]

More terms on https://t.co/qy1o8WE66o to look out for:

WENA (inspired by @NonsensicalNemo)
Technophobia (inspired by inputs by @parmita)

[Indic Pacific Legal Research @indicpacific]

Our glossary (https://t.co/qy1o8WE66o) just got updated for 2025!

Check out new definitions of:

Roughdraft AI (inspired by @GaryMarcus' coinage of the term)
Indofuturism (inspired by @ekpraet)
Framework Fatigue
AI Agents (inspired by inputs of @akantjas)
Technophobia

[Indic Pacific Legal Research @indicpacific]

India in the Indo-Pacific: Elephant in a china shop or master strategist?

Our new report spills the chai! #IndoPacificInsights

Read: https://t.co/znaeJsCT9e

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