Vrinda Bhandari

Law, Public Policy | Ex-@OxfordLawFac, @BlavatnikSchool, NLS | #privacy, #technology, #humanrights, #criminal justice | Runner | RTs are not endorsements

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

I write on the latest #AI amendment to the #ITRules 2021 and what it means for #censorship and #intermediary #duediligence in @htTweets. Link in the comments below

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

Couldn’t agree more! Was really upset by the ridiculous sexualisation of women in sports by Sydney Sweeney’s new ad

[🎾 @jumpingbhs]

of course instead of fighting against both the sexualisation and constant belittlement of women in sports sydney sweeney chose to make a commercial that’s setting us back. women’s sports aren’t for the male gaze and their pleasure

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

Interesting report

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.

A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.

Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.

The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.

The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.

Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.

The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔An NYU mathematician says OpenAI used his own progress against him to beat him to one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathematics. Tristan Buckmaster had been working toward a Millennium Prize proof using OpenAI's Codex when information about his progress reached OpenAI.
Days later, OpenAI published a full proof of the same problem using the same uncommon approach, after burning $22.5 million in compute to get there. When Buckmaster confronted them, exec Sébastien Bubeck allegedly said "Why would you ruin your career?" and "If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't have to be nice."

My Take
OpenAI spent $22.5 million to solve a problem with a $1 million prize. They didn't do this for the bounty. They needed a headline that says "our AI solved one of the hardest problems in mathematics" and they needed it before someone else got credit. They started days after they heard about Buckmaster's progress and took the same uncommon approach he'd pursued for months. That's hard to explain as coincidence.

Buckmaster did his work inside Codex. OpenAI reserves the right to train on Codex data. They admit they can't rule out that his usage helped improve their models. So a customer used their product, potentially handed them the roadmap, and then OpenAI outran him with $22.5 million in compute he could never match. I don't know if any of this was intentional. But if you're a researcher and you just watched this happen, I don't think you'd keep your best ideas inside someone else's product.

Hedgie🤗

https://t.co/1YnggU7xdI

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

@Brady_H We see this in Delhi @Brady_H

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

Really well written piece

[Shane Harris @shaneharris]

Read my new feature in @TheAtlantic: The Qataris gave Trump an airplane. He crippled their country in return.

This is the story of how one of the richest countries in the world learned that Donald Trump cannot be bought. Only paid. "A man who doesn’t remember yesterday never asks 'Are we friends?' He only wants to know, 'What have you done for me lately?'"

https://t.co/zT0tSS73Wr

[Reuters @Reuters]

A can of Fanta sold in London has 63 calories. Buy the same brand in India, and it contains three times as much sugar. It also includes artificial dye, whose presence in food products in Europe requires a prominent health warning.

In India, the colorant’s presence is noted merely in small print on the back of the can. That suits some of the world’s biggest companies, which have long resisted Indian efforts to mandate nutritional warnings on the front of packaged products https://t.co/skAERVVhl9

[Vinayakk @vinayakkm]

Satwik-Chirag. Legends.

[Mihir Vasavda @mihirsv]

India have shown they are a team capable of adjusting to the game in front of them. Against China, they fought. Against SA, they attacked. Against England, when the game demanded resilience, they survived.

Next up, the mighty Dutch

https://t.co/pI4cIBLGoU via @IndianExpress

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

Interesting read

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthletic: The Los Angeles Lakers have gone from 46 years under one family to potentially two ownership changes in just over a year. Less than 14 years after Jerry Buss’ death, his family could be out of the organization entirely. https://t.co/dskIRP7S4z

[SheThePeople @SheThePeople]

Squadron Leader Bhawana Kanth achieves a new milestone by becoming India’s first woman 'Top Gun' Pilot’ and earning the IAF's toughest combat badge

#indianairforce #bhawanakanth

https://t.co/giy8jUcMSi

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

Still remember every moment of this!

[Vinayakk @vinayakkm]

It's now five years since Neeraj Chopra's iconic 87.58 in Tokyo. 🏅

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthletic: Alex Eala, 21, has been making history for the Philippines since she was a junior. She is changing tennis culture in real time. Many Filipino fans attending the Canadian Open hadn’t been to a tennis tournament before. https://t.co/cWvpxFlOmS

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

Cannot get over this Egypt Argentina result! Was rooting for Egypt

[Livelaw Academy @LivelawAcademy]

The DPDP Act's scope is broader than most compliance teams realise.

This 6-week capsule course with Adv. @VrindaBhandari is built for professionals who need to translate the law into real compliance decisions — not just read about it. Starts July 11.

Starts July 11 | 🖥️ Live | ₹4,999 incl. GST
Enroll Now: https://t.co/FyqCToblHh
LiveLaw Academy

[DPDPAct, Data Protection Law, DPDP2023, Data Privacy India, LegalEducation, LiveLaw Academy, Legal Upskilling, Legal Practice]

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

Registration closing soon!

[Livelaw Academy @LivelawAcademy]

Starts This Saturday
The DPDP Act is now part of everyday legal and business decisions — but understanding it on paper and applying it in practice are two different things.

This 6-week live capsule course with Adv. Vrinda Bhandari, a Rhodes Scholar and litigator on India's leading data protection and surveillance cases, is built to close that gap.

Starts July 11 | 🖥️ Live | ₹4,999 incl. GST
Enroll Now: https://t.co/FyqCToblHh

[DPDPAct, Data Protection Law, DPDP2023, Data Privacy India]

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

How is this legal!!

[Alfons López Tena 🦇 @alfonslopeztena]

US football fraud — Trump asked FIFA to review US top goal scorer Balogun, after he was given a red cardplayer and suspended. He is now allowed to play, the first time since 1962 that FIFA has allowed a player to appear in a game after being suspended https://t.co/kXNqTbR2Hd

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

Enrolments are open! Register at https://t.co/83A4TydEbW

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

Really excited to be taking this six week course on #dataprotection law! Please do register if this is of interest! We will be talking about all things #DPDA, #privacy, #technology, and #AI

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

What an absolute cracker of a match! #morocco was outstanding

[Vrinda Bhandari @VrindaBhandari]

Really excited to be taking this six week course on #dataprotection law! Please do register if this is of interest! We will be talking about all things #DPDA, #privacy, #technology, and #AI

[Livelaw Academy @LivelawAcademy]

This is the course India's legal community has been waiting for.

The DPDP Act is live. AI is reshaping every corner of law and compliance. And for the first time — someone who has actually fought these battles in court is teaching the law behind them.

Advocate Vrinda Bhandari.
Rhodes Scholar. Litigator. The legal mind behind India's most defining digital rights battles — Aadhaar, surveillance, internet shutdowns, the Intermediary Rules.

A 6-week course on Digital Personal Data Protection Law — coming soon to LiveLaw Academy.

📌 Enrollment opens shortly.

[DPDPA, DataProtectionLaw, PrivacyLaw, LiveLawAcademy, TechLaw, LegalEducation, AIandLaw]

[Prem Panicker @prempanicker]

Sebastian Sawe's breakfast on the morning he made history? Two slices of bread with honey and tea. Sharda Ugra's piece on the sub-2 marathon is ostensibly about hydrogels and carb loading, but underneath the science, it is really about what it takes to be the 0.001%. Beautifully done:

https://t.co/gJAPRafXcH