Civilisational Lens — Ashank Mittal
Civilisational Lens
The ancient architecture of modern governance problems.
“The problems modern AI governance is forced to solve explicitly — responsibility, incentives, accountability under uncertainty — are the same problems Indic duty ethics have encoded for millennia.”
My systems thinking is informed by Indic frameworks of duty and decision ethics. This isn't philosophical decoration. It's an operational lens that shapes how I approach multi-stakeholder governance, trust architecture, and institutional AI adoption.
Active research in AI-enabled decision models, DAO governance, and multi-criteria decision science (MCDM) — informing how I frame AI ROI and adoption risk for institutional stakeholders.
This lens was forged through 45,000+ km of solo fieldwork across 560+ pilgrimage and heritage sites in 25 Indian states — studying how communities build trust, govern shared resources, and adopt or reject technology under uncertainty.