Urvashi Aneja

Urvashi Aneja

Urvashi Aneja is an interdisciplinary researcher, policy analyst, and social entrepreneur from India. Her current work examines the ethics, social impacts, and governance of artificial intelligence in the global south. She is the founder and executive director of Digital Futures Lab, an associate fellow at Chatham House, and a nonresident fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Urvashi holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Her research has been cited in leading national and global media publications and she has served on expert government committees on artificial intelligence and frontier technologies.

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Opinion: The challenges of protecting data and rights in the metaverse

Opinion: The challenges of protecting data and rights in the metaverse

almost 4 years ago // Generation Why: Sponsored by Fondation Botnar

Tech companies and investors are hailing the metaverse as the future of the web. But what are the likely human rights implications and who gets to reap the benefits? Urvashi Aneja, founder and executive director of Digital Futures Lab, weighs in.