India, March 9 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) entered my life with a bang and I must admit we never hit it off very well. In fact, we were like strange bedfellows and it was not without reason that I've come to call it an 'arrogant intruder'.

On many occasions, my two cents have been smashed to bits by the additional trivia on the internet. Once I was acquainting my little one with the lofty story of the Mahabharata and pat came his words, "The net says the Kauravas were clones of a single entity and carried the same genetic structure." A moment of serendipity descended on me, as I was grappling with AI-generated clones and deepfakes sprawled all over the digital world.

We're living in times where we consume megabytes of technology rig...