The JSW Centre for the Future of Law at NLSIU at NLSIU, along with University of Amsterdam, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, and Tilburg University, is organising a socio-legal workshop titled ‘AI in the everyday in India’ on Saturday, January 10, 2025.

Concept Note

AI and the Everyday in India brings together scholars working on everyday negotiations with AI enabled algorithmic governance in policing, surveillance of public places, welfare provisions, control of borders in the Indian context marked by either the absence of legal, regulatory frameworks or gaps between the law and lived realities of experiences with AI.

The workshop will generate conceptual frameworks and methodological tools for studying AI and the everyday in a comparative perspective that considers generalisable similarities even while being mindful of the unique histories and socio-political dynamics that shape the implementation and reception of AI technologies in India. The discussions will develop the network of scholars exploring the everyday life of AI in the global south.

Programme

10.00 – 10.15 am: Introduction and Welcome
Siddharth de Souza, Sagnik Dutta, Rahul Hemrajani, and Siddharth M

10.15 am – 12.15 pm: AI related challenges to democracy and justice
Chair: Rahul Hemrajani
Discussants: Sagnik Dutta and Siddharth M

• Antecedents as Precedents? Exploring the Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) in India – Nupur Chowdhury
• Law, Ethics, and AI in Urban Traffic Enforcement: The Case Study of Delhi NCR of India – Rajesh Kumar
• Watching the Republic: A Critical Policy Analysis of AI-Enabled Government Surveillance in India – Nikhil Purohit
• Democratic Backsliding in the Global Majority: Wading Through the Swamp of AI Slop – Anmol Diwan

12.15 – 1.15: Lunch

1.15 – 3.45 pm: Governance, Human rights and Infrastructures of AI
Chair: Siddharth de Souza
Discussants: Rahul Hemrajani and Siddharth M

• When Infrastructure becomes Governance: Rethinking Law’s Role in India’s Digital health Project – Anamika Kundu
• Ecologies of AI in India – Preeti Raghunath and Suriya Krishna B S
• ‘Who’ is involved in governing AI in India and ‘how’?: The role of state and non-state actors – Devyani Pande
• AI and Human Rights: A posthuman conundrum – Manpreet Singh
• Inclusion, Innovation and AI in/for Law in India’ – Krishna Ravi Srinivas

3.45 – 4.00 pm: Tea and coffee

4.00 to 6.00 pm: Imaginations and futures of AI
Chair: Sagnik Dutta
Discussants: Siddharth de Souza and Rahul Hemrajani

• From Assembly to Algorithm: Constitutional Intelligibility and Self-Respect in the Age of AI – Shaunna Rodrigues
• The Masculine Rhythm of Algorithmic Solutions and the Future of Collective Political Imagination – Debangana Chatterjee
• Decolonising AI Personhood: Designing a Framework for the Future – Shrawani Shagun and Sanchet Sharma
• Building AI Futures from Below: Centering youth voices to build equitable and accountable AI – Bhawna Parmar

6 to 6.30 pm: Conclusion
Siddharth M, Rahul Hemrajani, Sagnik Dutta and Siddharth de Souza