When the machines rise

An argument for the need for humans to reinvent themselves in the age of AI

- SRINATH SRIDHARAN

Much of the conversation around artificial intelligence today is conducted at the extremes, with breathless warnings of mass job losses at one end and breezy dismissal at the other. The reality seems to be far more complicated, stuck somewhere no one can predict with any accuracy.

This is simply because AI is still being understood even as its development scales at astonishing speed. Despite its occasional missteps, the infamous hallucinations, the moments when it stumbles over context, intelligent systems are already quietly replacing human effort in areas once thought incomprehensible. The real question is whether we, as humans, can reinvent ourselves fast enough not just to cope with it, but to flourish alongside it.