Rhydhi Gupta is a lawyer, Senior Analyst of Public Policy at The Quantum Hub, where she works across its technology portfolio, and the creator of Sansad Games, an experiment in making public policy more accessible through play.

In this episode of On Second Thought, I sit down with Rhydhi to understand how public policy shapes our relationship with technology, often in ways we don’t even realise. It determines what platforms can and cannot do, how our data is treated, what protections we have when we are harmed online and, increasingly, how we respond to a world where AI can generate and manipulate content at unprecedented scale.

We get into I ...