India, Feb. 24 -- Ever heard of Mithridates of Pontus? The ruler was so scared of nefarious royal plots and assassination attempts that he started fiddling with toxicology. He, as the myth goes, took small doses of lethal poisons in a clever concoction to make himself immune to any kind of attack mixed in his food.

If he could do that, why can we not? Especially when the arsenic of AI-deep-fakes, the snake bites of audio/video cloning and the venom of AI frauds can be anywhere in the air today? Brad Pitt look-alikes, Sunil Mittal's voice-cloned finance instructions, a CFO on a video call asking an employee for a big money transfer, a family member begging for help in an emergency, or a cop executing a digital arrest-the colours may vary....