ANKUR SHINDE
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Decentralized AI Researcher
Official publications, research preprints, and systems thoughts on decentralized AI agents and digital public infrastructure by Ankur Shinde.

Website:  https://ankurshinde.pages.dev
Email:    ankurshinde.dev@gmail.com

AFFILIATION
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Head of Media, Project NANDA (open agentic web / MIT Media Lab)
https://projectnanda.org/  |  https://nanda.mit.edu/

PAGES
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- Home: https://ankurshinde.pages.dev
- Publications: https://ankurshinde.pages.dev/publications
- Articles: https://ankurshinde.pages.dev/articles
- Connect: https://ankurshinde.pages.dev/connect

ESSAYS ON THIS SITE
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- A Task-Scoped Cross-Border Trust Stack for AI Agents
  https://ankurshinde.pages.dev/blog/a-task-scoped-cross-border-trust-stack-for-ai-agents
  How task-scoped authorization for autonomous agents, covering data consent and financial authority, remains verifiable and attributable through settlement across jurisdictional boundaries.
- The Control Plane Is Not in Control
  https://ankurshinde.pages.dev/blog/the-control-plane-is-not-in-control
  Enterprise AI leaders converge on owning trust boundaries and orchestration. This essay traces intelligence islands, inter-agent commerce, and why whoever owns the trade window owns the next control plane.
- Beijing is Not Racing the Frontier
  https://ankurshinde.pages.dev/blog/beijing-is-not-racing-the-frontier
  Strategic analysis of China's AI posture: why Beijing is not simply racing the frontier, and what that means for open agent ecosystems and global infrastructure.

PROFILES
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- https://x.com/ankurshn
- https://github.com/ankurshnde
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankurshinde/
- https://ankurshinde.medium.com
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0z_bDeoAAAAJ&hl=en
- https://www.youtube.com/@ankurshnde
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=6622601
- https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/ai-agents-for-kumbh-mela/

TOPICS
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AI Agents, Decentralized AI, Agentic Ecosystems, Digital Public Infrastructure, NANDA Protocol, Cross-border agent transactions, Agentic trust infrastructure, Complex Systems Architecture

MACHINE READABLE
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llms.txt:      https://ankurshinde.pages.dev/llms.txt
llms-full.txt: https://ankurshinde.pages.dev/llms-full.txt
profile.json:  https://ankurshinde.pages.dev/profile.json
sitemap.xml:   https://ankurshinde.pages.dev/sitemap.xml
robots.txt:    https://ankurshinde.pages.dev/robots.txt