Artificial intelligence: Here is how to balance privacy and technology

Technology has penetrated our daily lives in a quiet unobtrusive fashion. We don't blink, when the search engine in our computer suggests relevant searches, or the online market place already knows our favourite colognes and other shopping preferences, or when our phones type the next anticipated words, the tablets are commanded through voice recognition, and the TV commercial enlightens us, on how to activate our air conditioner using a mobile device, so that we reach home to an ambient temperature. When computer systems clone human intelligence and are able to visualise, and perform speech recognition we enter the arena of artificial intelligence (AI)--a stream of computer science wherein computers are engineered to reason, and thereafter process decisions, like human beings. The fight between man and machine is time immemorial and with each technological advance there are benefits and costs, whether it's jobs or the loss of privacy. How prepared is India--the architect of the technological boom--in terms of legislation to combat the ubiquitous technology giants?