Vivek Agarwal
@agarwalvivek.bsky.social
Country Director, India at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change | Sustainability Expert | Technology Strategist | Global Development Leader
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Govern AI well, and you lead. Get it wrong, and you become a spectator.
What’s the single most important AI policy challenge today? Let’s talk.
Govern AI well, and you lead. Get it wrong, and you become a spectator.
What’s the single most important AI policy challenge today? Let’s talk.
February 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Govern AI well, and you lead. Get it wrong, and you become a spectator.
What’s the single most important AI policy challenge today? Let’s talk.
Govern AI well, and you lead. Get it wrong, and you become a spectator.
What’s the single most important AI policy challenge today? Let’s talk.
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4. Beyond Regulation: Policy isn’t just about rules. Influence AI where it’s built—through incentives, partnerships, and targeted interventions.
5. Narrative Control: AI fearmongering creates paralysis. AI hype leads to reckless adoption. The best policymakers cut through both.
4. Beyond Regulation: Policy isn’t just about rules. Influence AI where it’s built—through incentives, partnerships, and targeted interventions.
5. Narrative Control: AI fearmongering creates paralysis. AI hype leads to reckless adoption. The best policymakers cut through both.
February 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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4. Beyond Regulation: Policy isn’t just about rules. Influence AI where it’s built—through incentives, partnerships, and targeted interventions.
5. Narrative Control: AI fearmongering creates paralysis. AI hype leads to reckless adoption. The best policymakers cut through both.
4. Beyond Regulation: Policy isn’t just about rules. Influence AI where it’s built—through incentives, partnerships, and targeted interventions.
5. Narrative Control: AI fearmongering creates paralysis. AI hype leads to reckless adoption. The best policymakers cut through both.
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2. Systems Thinking: AI doesn’t impact industries in isolation. Every regulation has ripple effects—on elections, trade, security.
3. Structural Oversight: The AI debate isn’t just about transparency or fairness. It’s about power. Who controls AI. Who profits. Who governs.
2. Systems Thinking: AI doesn’t impact industries in isolation. Every regulation has ripple effects—on elections, trade, security.
3. Structural Oversight: The AI debate isn’t just about transparency or fairness. It’s about power. Who controls AI. Who profits. Who governs.
February 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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2. Systems Thinking: AI doesn’t impact industries in isolation. Every regulation has ripple effects—on elections, trade, security.
3. Structural Oversight: The AI debate isn’t just about transparency or fairness. It’s about power. Who controls AI. Who profits. Who governs.
2. Systems Thinking: AI doesn’t impact industries in isolation. Every regulation has ripple effects—on elections, trade, security.
3. Structural Oversight: The AI debate isn’t just about transparency or fairness. It’s about power. Who controls AI. Who profits. Who governs.
5/Want to make sharper, clearer decks? Start here.
What’s the best slide advice you’ve ever received? Let’s discuss.
#Leadership #PublicPolicy #EffectiveCommunication
What’s the best slide advice you’ve ever received? Let’s discuss.
#Leadership #PublicPolicy #EffectiveCommunication
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
5/Want to make sharper, clearer decks? Start here.
What’s the best slide advice you’ve ever received? Let’s discuss.
#Leadership #PublicPolicy #EffectiveCommunication
What’s the best slide advice you’ve ever received? Let’s discuss.
#Leadership #PublicPolicy #EffectiveCommunication
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✅ Visuals amplify messages—use them strategically.
✅ Highlight key takeaways—make the important stuff pop.
✅ Tailor content for your audience—speak their language.
✅ Facts tell, but stories sell—use examples and narratives.
✅ End with a clear call to action—give them a reason to act
✅ Visuals amplify messages—use them strategically.
✅ Highlight key takeaways—make the important stuff pop.
✅ Tailor content for your audience—speak their language.
✅ Facts tell, but stories sell—use examples and narratives.
✅ End with a clear call to action—give them a reason to act
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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✅ Visuals amplify messages—use them strategically.
✅ Highlight key takeaways—make the important stuff pop.
✅ Tailor content for your audience—speak their language.
✅ Facts tell, but stories sell—use examples and narratives.
✅ End with a clear call to action—give them a reason to act
✅ Visuals amplify messages—use them strategically.
✅ Highlight key takeaways—make the important stuff pop.
✅ Tailor content for your audience—speak their language.
✅ Facts tell, but stories sell—use examples and narratives.
✅ End with a clear call to action—give them a reason to act
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✅ Keep language precise—typos kill credibility.
✅ One core idea per slide—make it effortless to grasp.
✅ Less clutter = more impact—trim the fluff.
✅ Logical flow—decks should feel like a story.
✅ Good formatting isn’t decoration—it’s clarity.
✅ Keep language precise—typos kill credibility.
✅ One core idea per slide—make it effortless to grasp.
✅ Less clutter = more impact—trim the fluff.
✅ Logical flow—decks should feel like a story.
✅ Good formatting isn’t decoration—it’s clarity.
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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✅ Keep language precise—typos kill credibility.
✅ One core idea per slide—make it effortless to grasp.
✅ Less clutter = more impact—trim the fluff.
✅ Logical flow—decks should feel like a story.
✅ Good formatting isn’t decoration—it’s clarity.
✅ Keep language precise—typos kill credibility.
✅ One core idea per slide—make it effortless to grasp.
✅ Less clutter = more impact—trim the fluff.
✅ Logical flow—decks should feel like a story.
✅ Good formatting isn’t decoration—it’s clarity.
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If you work in policy, strategy, or leadership, slides are often your primary communication tool. Yet, no one teaches us how to do them well.
So here’s a 10-step checklist to turn your slides from “meh” to “impactful”:
If you work in policy, strategy, or leadership, slides are often your primary communication tool. Yet, no one teaches us how to do them well.
So here’s a 10-step checklist to turn your slides from “meh” to “impactful”:
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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If you work in policy, strategy, or leadership, slides are often your primary communication tool. Yet, no one teaches us how to do them well.
So here’s a 10-step checklist to turn your slides from “meh” to “impactful”:
If you work in policy, strategy, or leadership, slides are often your primary communication tool. Yet, no one teaches us how to do them well.
So here’s a 10-step checklist to turn your slides from “meh” to “impactful”:
📢 Should India stick to its proven models or adopt a new AI strategy?
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
📢 Should India stick to its proven models or adopt a new AI strategy?
4️⃣ But none of this works without impeccable execution.
🛠 Execution is key:
✅ Proper funding
✅ Early wins
✅ Cross-ministerial coordination
✅ Public-private partnerships
India doesn’t need to copy anyone. it needs to double down on what already works.
🛠 Execution is key:
✅ Proper funding
✅ Early wins
✅ Cross-ministerial coordination
✅ Public-private partnerships
India doesn’t need to copy anyone. it needs to double down on what already works.
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
4️⃣ But none of this works without impeccable execution.
🛠 Execution is key:
✅ Proper funding
✅ Early wins
✅ Cross-ministerial coordination
✅ Public-private partnerships
India doesn’t need to copy anyone. it needs to double down on what already works.
🛠 Execution is key:
✅ Proper funding
✅ Early wins
✅ Cross-ministerial coordination
✅ Public-private partnerships
India doesn’t need to copy anyone. it needs to double down on what already works.
3️⃣ Now, imagine applying this to AI:
🌾 Agriculture → AI-powered forecasting for small farmers
🏥 Healthcare → Affordable, AI-driven diagnostics
📚 Education → Scalable personalized learning
India has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to set a global AI standard.
🌾 Agriculture → AI-powered forecasting for small farmers
🏥 Healthcare → Affordable, AI-driven diagnostics
📚 Education → Scalable personalized learning
India has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to set a global AI standard.
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
3️⃣ Now, imagine applying this to AI:
🌾 Agriculture → AI-powered forecasting for small farmers
🏥 Healthcare → Affordable, AI-driven diagnostics
📚 Education → Scalable personalized learning
India has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to set a global AI standard.
🌾 Agriculture → AI-powered forecasting for small farmers
🏥 Healthcare → Affordable, AI-driven diagnostics
📚 Education → Scalable personalized learning
India has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to set a global AI standard.
2️⃣ What about India?
India leapfrogs through frugal innovation.
💳 Aadhaar & UPI revolutionized financial inclusion.
🚀 Chandrayaan reached the Moon at a fraction of NASA’s budget.
💡 DeepSeek, China’s AI disruptor, shows you don’t need deep pockets to lead in innovation.
India leapfrogs through frugal innovation.
💳 Aadhaar & UPI revolutionized financial inclusion.
🚀 Chandrayaan reached the Moon at a fraction of NASA’s budget.
💡 DeepSeek, China’s AI disruptor, shows you don’t need deep pockets to lead in innovation.
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
2️⃣ What about India?
India leapfrogs through frugal innovation.
💳 Aadhaar & UPI revolutionized financial inclusion.
🚀 Chandrayaan reached the Moon at a fraction of NASA’s budget.
💡 DeepSeek, China’s AI disruptor, shows you don’t need deep pockets to lead in innovation.
India leapfrogs through frugal innovation.
💳 Aadhaar & UPI revolutionized financial inclusion.
🚀 Chandrayaan reached the Moon at a fraction of NASA’s budget.
💡 DeepSeek, China’s AI disruptor, shows you don’t need deep pockets to lead in innovation.
The EU champions regulatory leadership, ensuring privacy, ethics, and consumer protection, even if it slows down innovation. GDPR reshaped global digital policy, forcing Big Tech to comply.
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The EU champions regulatory leadership, ensuring privacy, ethics, and consumer protection, even if it slows down innovation. GDPR reshaped global digital policy, forcing Big Tech to comply.
China excels at state-led planning - massive public investment, infrastructure megaprojects, and long-term national strategies. The Belt and Road Initiative and domestic AI dominance are proof.
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
China excels at state-led planning - massive public investment, infrastructure megaprojects, and long-term national strategies. The Belt and Road Initiative and domestic AI dominance are proof.
1️⃣ Three dominant AI models:
The US relies on market-driven innovation i.e VC funding, private-sector risk-taking, and minimal government intervention. Think of how DARPA-backed research helped create the tech giants of today.
The US relies on market-driven innovation i.e VC funding, private-sector risk-taking, and minimal government intervention. Think of how DARPA-backed research helped create the tech giants of today.
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
1️⃣ Three dominant AI models:
The US relies on market-driven innovation i.e VC funding, private-sector risk-taking, and minimal government intervention. Think of how DARPA-backed research helped create the tech giants of today.
The US relies on market-driven innovation i.e VC funding, private-sector risk-taking, and minimal government intervention. Think of how DARPA-backed research helped create the tech giants of today.
Global regulators are scrambling to set guardrails, just look at the AI Action Summit in Paris. And the lawsuit against OpenAI? It’s only the beginning of a larger fight over truth in the AI era.
Are we prepared for this shift? Let’s discuss.
Are we prepared for this shift? Let’s discuss.
February 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Global regulators are scrambling to set guardrails, just look at the AI Action Summit in Paris. And the lawsuit against OpenAI? It’s only the beginning of a larger fight over truth in the AI era.
Are we prepared for this shift? Let’s discuss.
Are we prepared for this shift? Let’s discuss.
3/ This is both an opportunity and a challenge:
🔹 Opportunity: AI-driven personalization could transform education, making learning more intuitive and engagement deeper.
🔹 Challenge: If AI reinforces biases, do we risk an era of hyper-personalized echo chambers?
🔹 Opportunity: AI-driven personalization could transform education, making learning more intuitive and engagement deeper.
🔹 Challenge: If AI reinforces biases, do we risk an era of hyper-personalized echo chambers?
February 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
3/ This is both an opportunity and a challenge:
🔹 Opportunity: AI-driven personalization could transform education, making learning more intuitive and engagement deeper.
🔹 Challenge: If AI reinforces biases, do we risk an era of hyper-personalized echo chambers?
🔹 Opportunity: AI-driven personalization could transform education, making learning more intuitive and engagement deeper.
🔹 Challenge: If AI reinforces biases, do we risk an era of hyper-personalized echo chambers?
2/ AI will tailor narratives, insights, and even perspectives to your preferences, biases, and learning styles. Every article you read, every fact you absorb, will be subtly (or not-so-subtly) adjusted.
February 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
2/ AI will tailor narratives, insights, and even perspectives to your preferences, biases, and learning styles. Every article you read, every fact you absorb, will be subtly (or not-so-subtly) adjusted.
4/ Engage with thoughtful work, share real insights, and amplify what matters.
The internet will not fix itself. It’s on us to shape the conversation.
Let’s stop letting the algorithm decide what wins. Let’s make better content win.
The internet will not fix itself. It’s on us to shape the conversation.
Let’s stop letting the algorithm decide what wins. Let’s make better content win.
February 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
4/ Engage with thoughtful work, share real insights, and amplify what matters.
The internet will not fix itself. It’s on us to shape the conversation.
Let’s stop letting the algorithm decide what wins. Let’s make better content win.
The internet will not fix itself. It’s on us to shape the conversation.
Let’s stop letting the algorithm decide what wins. Let’s make better content win.
3/ So, what’s the answer? Crowd out bad content with better content.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of bad content is for good content to do nothing."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of bad content is for good content to do nothing."
February 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
3/ So, what’s the answer? Crowd out bad content with better content.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of bad content is for good content to do nothing."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of bad content is for good content to do nothing."
2/ Then I realized:
"People think truth is hard to find, but really, it’s just bad at marketing itself."
Waiting for a platform that rewards depth over noise? That’s not how these platforms work.
"People think truth is hard to find, but really, it’s just bad at marketing itself."
Waiting for a platform that rewards depth over noise? That’s not how these platforms work.
February 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
2/ Then I realized:
"People think truth is hard to find, but really, it’s just bad at marketing itself."
Waiting for a platform that rewards depth over noise? That’s not how these platforms work.
"People think truth is hard to find, but really, it’s just bad at marketing itself."
Waiting for a platform that rewards depth over noise? That’s not how these platforms work.