Description

This presentation was developed for and presented in National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi’s Capacity Building Programme on “Artificial Intelligence & Contemporary Challenges in Law” on September 12, 2026.

Presentation Topics

• Results of the Survey on AI Policy Drafting Literacy
• Four Different AI Governance Pillars that Matter
  • IP & Innovation Law (Inventorship Thresholds & Data Ingestion)
  • Vendor Management (4th-Party AI Use & Data Leakage)
  • Data Protection (Purpose Limitation, Privacy Engineering Goals & DPO Erasure Protocols)
  • Safe Harbours (Multi-Jurisdictional Realities & Oblique Approaches)
  • Research Practices (LRM Workflows & Academic Integrity)
  • Product Liability (Kinds of Defects and Intended Usage of AI Systems)

You can also look at the preceding Presentation done on September 8 on AI and Product Liability, which addresses one of the governance pillars in detail: https://indopacific.app/product/ai-product-liability-across-global-value-supply-chains-presentation/

Further Readings recommended as part of this presentation (click these hyperlinks): 

Artificial Intelligence Governance

• AI and Complex Adaptive Systems
• AI, Market Power and India in a Multipolar World

AI and Open-Source Systems

• Legal Strategies for Open Source Artificial Intelligence Practices, IPLR-IG-004

AI Standardisation Documentation

• AiStandard.io Alliance Documentation by the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law

AI and Legal Tech

• Technology Law and Legal Technology are NOT the Same

Copyright Law

• AI-Generated Texts and the Legal Landscape: A Technical Perspective
• Impact-Based Legal Problems around Generative AI in Publishing, IPLR-IG-010
• The ISAIL Orchha AI Principles

• AI and Law 101 by Indic Pacific
• Law & Policy Fundamentals Course (21 Lectures and notes in description, on YouTube)

Other major sources

• Abhivardhan & Arunima Jha, An Indian Trade Secret Bill May Reshape the AI x Copyright Dead-end: An Explainer, The Legal Wire, https://thelegalwire.ai/an-indian-trade-secret-bill-may-reshape-the-ai-x-copyright-dead-end-an-explainer/
• Sankalp Srivastava, Abhivardhan & Marius-Constantin Dinu, Artificial Intelligence, Market Power and India in a Multipolar World, Indic Pacific, https://indopacific.app/product/artificial-intelligence-market-power-and-india-in-a-multipolar-world/
• Indo-Pacific Research Ethics Framework on Artificial Intelligence Use, IPac AI. (2025, April 25). [Handbook presented to Manipal Academy for Higher Education, available on IndoPacific.App]: https://indopacific.app/product/indo-pacific-research-ethics-framework-on-artificial-intelligence-use-ipac-ai/
• Mittal, U. (2023, May 10). A new framework for a secure digital India. Observer Research Foundation. https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/a-new-framework-for-a-secure-digital-india
• ChatGPT & the Problem with Derivatives as Solutions (Check the “Competition Law Concerns on Derivative Products” section specifically). (2023, February 16). https://www.indicpacific.com/post/chatgpt-the-problem-with-derivatives-as-solutions

• Abhivardhan and Deepanshu Singh, Government with Algorithms: Managing AI in India’s Federal System: Occasional Paper Number 70, Forum of Federations, Canada, https://www.forumfed.org/document/government-with-algorithms-managing-ai-in-indias-federal-system-number-70/

• Observer Research Foundation America, India’s Tech Strategy: An Introductory Overview, https://orfamerica.org/newresearch/india-technology-policy (last visited Apr. 24, 2025), at 4.
• Indic Pacific Legal Research., IPLR-IG-013: Averting Framework Fatigue in AI Governance (Feb. 3, 2025), https://indopacific.app/product/iplr-ig-013/ (last visited Apr. 24, 2025).
• Buiten, M.C. Product liability for defective AI. Eur J Law Econ 57, 239–273 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-024-09794-z
• Mariniello, M. (2026) ‘The right balance: how to fix European Union artificial intelligence regulation’, Policy Brief 12/2026, Bruegel, available at https://doi.org/10.64153/BVAQ6479
• Dr Abhishek Sharma, (co-author) on why India should adopt an AI Dimension in its Act East Policy for South East Asia in The Diplomat: https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/the-ai-dimension-of-indias-act-east-policy/
• Abhivardhan & Dr Jagannath Panda, Chips, Code, and Control: Rewriting the Economics of Old Tech Wars, Institute of Security and Development Policy: https://isdp.eu/publication/chips-code-and-control-rewriting-the-economics-of-old-tech-wars