Normative Emergence in Cyber Geographies: International Algorithmic Law in a Multipolar Technological Order

From Abhivardhan ft. Indic Pacific Legal Research

Starting this week with an unexpected bang!

I am pleased to announce that my album is out! ❎ Nah, it's a book.

Presenting "Normative Emergence in Cyber Geographies: International Algorithmic Law in a Multipolar Technological Order" published by Indic Pacific Legal Research LLP.

This is by far the most academic work I have written after 2 years. Why? All the reports and handbooks we publish are in-house firm research in some shape or form. This work is personal.

So the story begins when I had presented the idea of the Entitative Nature of AI in SOLAIR Conference 2019 in Prague in September 2019 (you may find the preface below).

That paper presentation was special to me, and I had some reflections in 2020 to develop a framework of international algorithmic law. I was told I might be too early to decide that, but it was worth it.

5 years down the line, my discussions with Kapil Naresh, Chaitanya GIRI and Sankalp Srivastava inspired me to revisit this idea of mine, like the Indic Approach to AI Policy. Glad I did - and published this.

Honestly, nobody writes original research papers or books these days that much. Many do AI slop writing. But for me it was excruciating yet fun. This book gives a theoretical framework but also a larger expansion on three important trends that strengthen the need to have international algorithmic law as a scholarly field:

1️⃣ Most international "laws" on technology cannot be binding: so we live in the era of soft laws, guidelines and specific frameworks.

2️⃣ Use of AI or automation in digital public infrastructure will invite questions of diplomatic immunity, which will become a contentious matter in 3-5 years, even if LLMs fail, which is also happening.

3️⃣ Technical practices are gaining their form of relevance, and enabling norms, among AI communities, and it might be possible for governments to cede space to industry forums, open source communities, and others.

I am sure you will enjoy reading this one folks.