AI will democratise careers, says PTR

MINISTER Palanivel Thiyaga Rajan on Friday said artificial intelligence (AI) would fundamentally transform the future of work, shifting the focus of education back towards deep knowledge, ethics, and societal understanding.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Chennai

Speaking at the 13th annual convocation of VIT Chennai, he said past decades saw engineering graduates move into IT and software, but AI is changing that. "Machines can already write their own code and automate much of IT work. What we will need are people with expertise in sciences, humanities, law, and ethics - fields that machines cannot replace," he noted, adding, "Just as the internet democratised knowledge, AI will democratise careers. You will no longer need to master a complex programming language, the machine will do that but the challenge will be to tell it what to