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Engineers need to track concrete shifts: a proposed Digital India Act replaces a 20-year IT Act and will reshape how software is built and deployed; UPI and UPI and India Stack show technology can drive policy, not just follow it; AI reaches 1M users in days and already causes account lockouts, risking mass loss of agency; a small takshashila fellowship experiment picks five techies every three months to train policy-aware builders and test whether organized tech voices change outcomes.

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1. 0:00Tech policy intro
2. 4:59Engineers and public policy
3. 11:57AI risks and agency loss
4. 16:16Decentralization vs tech power
5. 21:30Q&A on AI and policy
6. 32:34Closing thoughts

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