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BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla T
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan he downsides of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution that’s
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, sweeping the world is attracting more attention than its up-
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); sides. The media is replete with gloom-and-doom predictions
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. of conquest of the world by indestructible AI-driven robots and
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); machines. They will enslave the genus homo sapiens which will
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta be sentenced to work in minerals extraction sites in remote planets or reared
(Bhubaneswar); Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); as cuddly pets for the amusement of new age AI-driven machines. While such
Shyama Thakore (London)
alarmist predictions can’t be entirely ruled out, it’s useful to recall that similar
EDITOR predictions were made when electricity, printing, automobiles, computers and
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the Internet made their debut. But all these apocalyptic predictions associ-
MANAGING EDITOR ated with game-changer inventions proved unwarranted. On the contrary, the
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relatively simple lives people led before these game-changer inventions were
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR greatly enriched because humankind mastered and converted them to its use.
Sundar Anand This history is about to be repeated with the widespread proliferation and
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi impact of AI. In the near future, people won’t have to store knowledge; they
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