AI Governance
AI Governance's Blind Spot
Why AI governance is taught as a bias and opacity problem when the more consequential risk is architectural standardisation that excludes anyone outside the norm — and what that means for policy design.
New Delhi, India · IIM Ahmedabad
Vikas
Gupta
AI Governance Commentator · Disability Rights Advocate · Constitutional Litigant
AI governance commentator writing and speaking on institutional design failures — drawing on his own case as a self-represented litigant in W.P.(C) 11495/2025 before the Delhi High Court.
About
Vikas Gupta speaks to public policy and governance programmes on AI regulation, institutional design, and the standardisation risks AI systems create for inclusion — bringing a working case study most AI governance scholarship doesn't have access to.
Policy Focus
- AI governance & regulation
- EU AI Act & comparative frameworks
- Institutional design failures
- Vendor liability & accountability
- Digital public infrastructure risk in developing states
- Disability rights & custody
Speaking Topics
Regulation & Liability
The EU AI Act, Vendor Liability & the Accommodation Gap
Connecting the AI Act's high-risk classification of recruitment tools, the Mobley v. Workday doctrine, and what audit, accommodation, and disclosure mandates would need to look like to close the gap.
Developing States
Designing AI Governance for Developing States
Why states building AI frameworks alongside rapid digital infrastructure rollout are at the highest risk of encoding exclusion from day one — and what governance architecture needs to look different.
Rights Litigation
From Individual Cases to Constitutional Change
How a single custodial violation becomes a structural constitutional accountability mechanism. A live case study in rights litigation strategy — and what it reveals about institutional design failures in practice.
Available Formats
- Keynote 45–60 min
- Plenary address
- Guest lecture
- Panel discussion
- Seminar / workshop
- In person or remote
Recent Engagements
RightsCon 2026 — Lusaka, Zambia
Silenced Twice: Press Freedom and Disability Voices Under Threat
Selected Writing
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View all writing at columnist.vikasgupta.world →
When Algorithms Decide Who Belongs: Can AI Undermine Disability Rights?
OpenGlobalRights
How AI Efficiency is Turning Diversity into a Liability
Disabled World
The AI Divide: How Technology is Leaving India's Public Schools Behind
Counterview
When Detention Becomes Punishment Before a Verdict
OpenGlobalRights
For India's Disabled Litigants, Justice is an Insurmountable Challenge
The Leaflet
Current Litigation
Delhi High Court · The Working Example
W.P.(C) 11495/2025
The governance argument in every talk is grounded in a live case: a self-represented constitutional petition arising from custodial disability rights violations by Delhi Police and Tihar Jail. Where most AI governance scholarship works from hypotheticals, this case provides a concrete instance of what institutional design failure looks like when it reaches a real person — and how the absence of systems integration becomes a justiciable harm.
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