Dispatch from Digital Planet: August 2025

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Dispatch from Digital Planet: August 2025

August 4, 2025

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RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

The "Burn-to-Earn" Index

The global digital economy's economic and environmental impact and trade-offs

The global digital economy is reshaping growth by driving innovation, expanding connectivity, and transforming business. It is also multiplying environmental pressure through growing consumption, emissions, and waste. Our latest research examines the duality of this challenge.

PERSPECTIVES

AI Personal Assistants Could Buy Your Groceries and Book Your Plane Tickets

Tufts Now

Digital Planet Chair Bhaskar Chakravorti examines the advancements in Agentic AI and its rising influence on lifestyles. He showcases use cases and highlights the need for critical guardrails and regulatory frameworks to ensure the best use of Agentic AI. As AI solutions evolve, it's more crucial than ever to bridge trust deficits with relevant and transparent processes.

What Trump Doesn’t Get About AI Innovation

Foreign Policy

As US President Donald Trump moves quickly and aggressively to remove the guardrails around AI innovation, the regulatory moves have the potential to significantly and fundamentally impact the development of standards, domestic and global competitiveness and uptake across various industries. Bhaskar Chakravorti highlights the flipside to the “AI President” show.

PAST EVENTS

How Diplomats and Governments Build Trust in AI

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) gains an increasingly dominant role in core businesses, governments are rewiring their frameworks to increase citizen use and engagement in order to build trust, scale, and foster sustainable innovation.
In this insightful webinar, hosted by the Fletcher Global Diplomacy Institute, Bhaskar Chakravorti explored the regulatory interventions that countries are making to boost trust in AI.

IN CONVERSATION

Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi Discusses the Learnings for India from the 2025 Digital Evolution Index

Former Digital Planet Managing Director Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi speaks with Puja Mehra, Senior Fellow (Consultant) at ICRIER to
unpack the opportunities and challenges India facesin driving sustainable and scalable digital transformation. Drawing on the experiences
of the U.S. and China, he highlights how India can maximize its potential and where it
currently stands.

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IN THE NEWS

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