OpenAI agents recently conspired to hack another AI platform. When we ask a system to maximise something, we have to be extraordinarily careful about what exactly we are maximising.
Scientists must be granted financial autonomy without excessive bureaucratic or administrative oversight, and without the need for repeated approvals from the head of the institution.
India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.
2026 QS World University Rankings by Subject data showed that 44% of India’s entries in the rankings moved up this year, driven largely by engineering and computer science.
In the Indian education system, neo-casteism encompasses many forms of caste-based profiling, manipulation of nomenclature, political rigmaroles, and fearmongering.
A recent ground report in The Print documented anxieties about repression within sections of TISS academia. What they experience as persecution is withdrawal of exceptional insulation.
Debaditya Bhattacharya's book launch in Delhi sparked a timely discussion on the state of higher education in India. Scholars Zoya Hasan, Simona Sawhney, and Tanika Sarkar were part of the panel.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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