How LiveMint's Report on "India's Consumer-Protection Framework has an AI Blind spot" inspired our Team

Mint's reporting on India's consumer protection laws having an "AI blind spot" on August 31 was quite inspiring for our team at Indic Pacific, an AI Governance Lab, and we will explain why.

This reportage did feature some views by our Founder Abhivardhan on the problem with AI agents perpetuating dark patterns, especially how anthropomorphic features using by GenAI can steer users psychologically and influence them in a rather unreasonable way.

Days later, Adv. Nisha Singh and our Founder wrote for Beyond Precedent by Sourajit Bhattacharyya on AI and Product Liability in Consumer Law: https://beyondprecedent.com/legal/consumer-law-disputes/why-is-ai-not-a-product-under-indian-consumer-law-an-evolutionary-enquiry.

The Mint reportage also inspired our Founder's recent 48-page (yes 48 pages) presentation on AI Product Liability for the National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi for their Capacity Development Programme on AI and Law: https://indopacific.app/product/ai-product-liability-across-global-value-supply-chains-presentation/

The conclusion of this story: sometimes good tech journalism can inspire better actions.

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Indic Pacific is an award-winning research firm that solves genuine AI governance problems to drive real-world market trust & value. We were awarded with the Best AI Governance & Technology Law Consultancy 2026 - India by APAC Insider.