Abhivardhan

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Founder, Indic Pacific, AIACT.IN. President, ISAIL.IN

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Join date: Apr 17, 2024

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Abhivardhan is a distinguished Technology Law and AI Governance Specialist, recognised for his contributions to global policy forums such as G20 Brazil’s Startup20 2024 and representations in key engagements led by the South Asian University, the Observer Research Foundation and the Commonwealth Legal Education Association. He serves as the Chairperson & Managing Trustee of the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law and leads as Managing Partner at Indic Pacific Legal Research, where he focuses on interdisciplinary legal research in technology and geopolitics.

His expertise spans Artificial Intelligence Governance, International Space Law, Digital Competition Law, and Indo-Pacific Studies, dedicated to shaping ethical frameworks for emerging technologies. Abhivardhan authored Artificial Intelligence Ethics and International Law: An Introduction (2nd ed., 2024), a pioneering work exploring the intersection of AI ethics and global legal systems, and drafted AIACT.IN—India’s first privately proposed AI regulation, now in its fourth iteration.

Emphasizing the need for culturally rooted approaches to technology governance, Abhivardhan advocates for Indic & Indo-Pacific Perspectives on AI Policy, aiming to integrate diverse philosophical and legal traditions into global discourse. His work bridges technical innovation with policy design, addressing challenges in digital sovereignty, intellectual property, and space law.

Beyond his institutional roles, Abhivardhan actively engages in thought leadership through publications and international dialogues, striving to advance equitable and inclusive frameworks for technological progress.

Some of his notable books, reports and research publications also include:

• 2020 Handbook on AI and International Law [RHB 2020 ISAIL] (2021)

• 2021 Handbook on AI and International Law [RHB 2021 ISAIL] (2022)

• Deciphering Artificial Intelligence Hype and its Legal-Economic Risks, VLiGTA-TR-001 (2022)

• Deciphering Regulative Methods for Generative AI, VLiGTA-TR-002 (2023)

• Reinventing & Regulating Policy Use Cases of Web3 for India, VLiGTA-TR-004 (2023)

• The Policy Purpose of a Multipolar Agenda for India, IPLR-IG-001 (2023)

• Legal Strategies for Open Source Artificial Intelligence Practices, IPLR-IG-004 (2024)

• A New Artificial Intelligence Strategy for India and the Artificial Intelligence (Development & Regulation) Bill, 2023 (2023-2024)

Posts (69)

Oct 21, 2025 ∙ 3 min

A Tech Paper on AI Output Preferences validates our AIInventorship.com Handbook

I have said this to all my co-authors, including Kailash Chauhan and Bhavana J , when we co-authored one of the rarest AI inventorship handbooks from India, ever: "Striving for excellence matters. Stay humble, build the foundations, then let the river flow." What happened exactly? Tuhin Chakraborty, P. Dhillion and Jane Ginsburg from Stony Brook University , Columbia Law School and University of Michigan respectively published a crucial paper on AI and market harms, from a copyright and AI...

Oct 7, 2025 ∙ 9 min

The CCI Study on AI and Competition, Explained

Quite recently, the Competition Commission of India in partnership with the Management Development Institute, Gurugram, came up with a Market Study on Artificial Intelligence and Competition. The study is extensive, and to that end, this explainer explores the most important estimates that have been provided by India's antitrust regulator. The report is divided into six chapters and one annexure. However, this explainer intends to keep things specific, to examine the context set by the...

Sep 10, 2025 ∙ 5 min

The Cloudflare v Perplexity Saga: A Defining Moment for AI and Economic Law

The explosive confrontation between Cloudflare and Perplexity represents far more than a technical dispute over web scraping, revealing fundamental tensions between AI innovation, economic rights, and the very nature of an "open internet." The Twitter discourse exposes the deeper fault lines that make this conflict so consequential. The Great Divide: Technical Pragmatism vs. Digital Freedom The Twitter conversation reveals a striking philosophical schism within Silicon Valley's elite. On one...