India, Dec. 21 -- In mid 2000, when legislators in the Uttar Pradesh assembly were introduced to laptops, many of them had lightly asked: "Yeh kya cheez hai?" (What is this?) Training sessions were held. A few years later, the majority of the lawmakers, including the non-tech savvy ones, started maintaining the full data of their constituency on their laptops. They hired experts while some took help from their children. Now, information is just a click away.

Today, when Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming the new normal, a similar exercise was held in August 2025 in which experts from IIT Kanpur apprised the lawmakers of its potential use and possible misuse while addressing their concerns on data accuracy and secrecy. Some of the M...