AI Governance & Public Policy · Author · Rights Advocate
Writing and speaking on the systems that shape young lives — and on making AI a force for inclusion, not extraction.
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Vikas Gupta is a policy commentator and rights advocate whose work centres on the people a system prefers not to count. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, he writes and speaks on public policy, economic opportunity, and the institutions that shape young lives.
He works on the governance of artificial intelligence and on making new technology inclusive rather than extractive — convinced that the same questions of fairness and access run through the job market and the algorithm alike.
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When Detention Becomes Punishment Before a Verdict
Structural inaccessibility in India's criminal justice system violates the rights of persons with disabilities.
The Leaflet
For India's Disabled Litigants, Justice is an Insurmountable Challenge
Counterview
The AI Divide: How Technology is Leaving India's Public Schools Behind
Disabled World
How AI Efficiency is Turning Diversity into a Liability
Countercurrents
Two Identities, One Democracy: The Rise of the Voter Over the Citizen
Counterview
The Cost of Being Indian: How Inequality and Market Logic Redefine Rights
Education
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
The Biggest Lie Told to Young India
A candid examination of the employability myth — why the skills gap narrative fails young Indians and what the system refuses to admit.
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Book One
How Artificial Intelligence Is Restructuring Knowledge, Work and Power
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Book Three
The Unlaced and the Laced — Humans vs. AI-Laced Humans
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Book One
Opportunity, Disruption, and the Future of Work & Growth
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Book Two
Power, Institutions, and the Future of the World's Largest Democracy
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Book Three
Inequality, Inclusion, and the Future of the Indian Republic
Buy on Amazon ›How societies set the rules for artificial intelligence — and who is left out when those rules are written.
The structural forces behind India's employment crisis — and why credentialism fails the majority.
The integrity of democratic institutions under technological and political pressure — with a focus on India.
Making the next wave of technology distribute access rather than concentrate advantage.
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