Prof. Krishna Deo Singh Chauhan, Associate Director, and Prof. Sidharth Chauhan, Director of the Centre, co-authored an op-ed in Millennium Post arguing that India must recognise the right to mental integrity as a constitutional safeguard in the age of AI companions. As LLM-based chatbots evolve from tools into emotionally persuasive companions, the authors argue that they create what they term a ‘steering effect’ – actively shaping beliefs, choices, and autonomy through repetitive, emotive reinforcement. The piece traces the right to mental integrity across European instruments and Indian constitutional jurisprudence, arguing that while the Puttaswamy privacy framework is philosophically expansive, it has yet to fully engage with technologies that do not merely know our choices but systematically shape them. The authors call on India to use the AI Summit as a platform to explicitly recognise this right \u2013 not as a constraint on innovation, but as a clarity-giving constitutional anchor guiding design choices, safeguarding user agency, and strengthening public trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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