Author: Satyen K Bordoloi

The job market apocalypse is here, and India’s youth will pay the price with their dreams and aspirations, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi Since independence, the traditional advice to Indian children has been: attend college, work hard, earn good grades, secure a good job, and be set for life. Today, this is proving to be a death trap as AI adoption is causing job losses globally, starting with the US. As of June 2025, the unemployment rate for general US workers has been below that for recent college graduates (aged 22–27), at 5.8%, a first since records began. The first waves…

AI use is being vigorously mandated for employees across the board, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi, as he outlines strategies to survive this newest AIpocalypse. Till recently, using AI to do your job could get you fired. If AI can do your job, why are you being paid: went the logic. Now, however, the reverse is happening, at least in the USA, as a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report recently found: employees are now being fired for not using AI. The phrase “AI is coming for your job” has thus undergone a makeover as companies realise that AI, on its own,…

After firing people indiscriminately under the guise of AI efficiency, companies are charting a new course by using AI to augment human talent rather than replace it, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi In this dawn of the AI era, public public debate about the technology mostly falls into two camps: doomsayers who talk of mass layoffs are pitted against starry-eyed evangelists who posit AI as a solution for everything. So far, the more the second group innovates, the more hopeless the former group feels, as they see hundreds of thousands of people being fired across companies, tech and otherwise, thanks to…

One man moved heaven and earth and AI to cure his dog’s cancer, but far from a one-in-a-million miracle, this could become a trend, opines Satyen K. Bordoloi A human’s love for their dog is the stuff of folklore. In Paatal Lok, a gruesome killer, moved by his target’s love of dogs, refuses to kill him. John Wick – the billion-plus dollar film franchise – is essentially the story of an assassin avenging his dog. Paul Conyngham – a Sydney-based tech entrepreneur and data scientist – did better than John Wick. Like Savitri and Orpheus, who wrested their loved ones…

Understanding the difference between simple automation and artificial intelligence could save you millions, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi The conference room goes silent as the vendor finishes their pitch. “Our AI-powered solution will transform your operations,” they declare, pointing to sleek dashboards and impressive ROI projections. But the company executives are busy asking themselves: how much would this cost, and how this investment might look in next quarter’s shareholder letter. They are not asking that one uncomfortable question that comes before all this: do we even need artificial intelligence, and could a simple, automated workflow do the same job for a…

A viral report says AI will eliminate white‑collar jobs, crash markets 38%, and turn India into an economic rubble; but Satyen K. Bordoloi argues it’s nothing but AI apocalypse porn Last month, someone sent me the now‑famous Citrini Research piece, “THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS,” with the kind of urgency usually reserved for gossip about shared friends. After reading the report, I could see why. I have been writing about AI for 8 years now, and this friend wanted my opinion because what it was projecting was alarming. As per the scenario outlined in the report, AI will eliminate all…

A new chatbot outperforms doctoral researchers at literature reviews, and could end up being the secret weapon science has been waiting for, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi PhD students have it tough. No matter how bright they are, they have to drown years not just into research, but in a sea of thousands of scientific papers, oscillating between dreams and dread. Part of the job involves conducting a literature review, as students spend weeks meticulously combing through existing research for their dissertations. But, often, they discover they missed something, like a crucial paper published in a journal they’ve never heard of,…

Forget spyder-cam in a cricket match because AI is making the impossibility of an infinite-cam possible, helping us see a single shot from an endless barrage of angles, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi The spyder-cam, when it was introduced in cricket, gave fans a view to die for. The camera was literally in the players’ faces, taking us so close that it made us love the game even more. Yet I remember my irritation when an opposition player’s ball was caught by one of ours, but the catch was invalidated because they had touched the spyder-cam cable on its way up…

Forget poetry writing, DeepSeek, the real Chinese AI revolution does backflips, and is headed for homes across the world, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. Remember that viral video of a robot playing table tennis with unnerving precision and grace, and winning a point? That one was fake; it was just a robot juxtaposed over a human. However, just two and a half years later, we are at the cusp of that near-parlour trick deep-faked by an AI video tool, turning real. And I didn’t believe it at all when I first saw it. Right on the first day of the India…

As Anthropic accuses Chinese companies of distillation, people direct them towards their own billions of dollars worth lawsuit for stealing entire libraries, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi There is never a boring day in the world of AI. Right on the tails of the fun and fiascos at the India AI Impact Summit that kept the world hooked for a week comes another right on cue. This time, Galgotias takes a back seat as Anthropic takes centre stage. On the 23rd, the company best known for its Claude AI model posted a lengthy blog post and an X thread accusing three…