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The Hindu
10-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
The Hindu Huddle 2025: 'AI will amplify, not replace, human capacity'
Paranoia around rapid advancements in AI is misplaced and technology would only amplify, and not replace human capacity, experts at a panel discussion said. The discussion titled AI for All: Dream of Democratised and Ethical AI was moderated by author Manu Joseph and had Astha Kapoor, Co-founder, Aapti Institute, Kalika Bali, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, India and Tanvi Lall, Strategy, People + AI as experts. To think of AI as an instrument of absolute and malicious power was wrong, said Ms. Bali. 'Technology can amplify human efforts both good and bad. There are questions that we need to manage right now - such as whether the data that is used to train AI is representative of the global majority, how do we ensure that models are aware of the context, how to reduce the risk of biases etc.' Also Read | The Hindu Huddle 2025 Day 2 live updates The nature of jobs will change and new jobs will be created, but the new ones also will be redundant soon as technology advances, pointed out Ms. Kapoor. 'The most vulnerable jobs right now are those in the BPO industry. There will new jobs in managing the data is being generated. There will be chaos and is need for regulation, social security, skill development and preparedness,' she said. Ms. Lall said AI has opened up the opportunity for learning for the curious people. AI and technology can take care of a range of routine work, and humans can turn their attention to creative and critical areas. The experts were of the opinion that in this phase of rapid changes, the human capacity to think critically and make sense of the cognitive overload will be of value. The Hindu Huddle 2025 is presented by Sami-Sabinsa Group Co-powered by: Government of Karnataka, Government of Telangana; Associate Partners: ONGC, Presidency University, TAFE, Akshayakalpa Organic; Energy Partner : Indian Oil Corporation Limited; Realty partner: Casagrand; Knowledge partner: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham; State partner: Meghalaya tourism and Haryana government; Luxury car partner: Toyota; Radio partner: Radio City; Gift partner: Anand Prakash; Broadcast partner: Times Now; Outdoor media partner: Signpost India.
The Hindu
02-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
The Hindu Huddle: Can ethics keep pace with the rapid evolution of AI?
In theory, it is already possible for an individual to create facial recognition software using Artificial Intelligence — software that could scrape billions of images from the Internet without permission, recognise faces, and identify individuals. Some of the large AI tools today are capable of doing this, but they refrain for ethical reasons. In that sense, ethics is currently woven into AI, but that may not remain the case as smaller, decentralised AIs emerge to meet growing market demand. AI can be used for surveillance, for generating deepfakes, and for spreading disinformation — all areas already rife with ethical concerns. It can also embed and automate bias, especially in hiring. The unspoken truth is that hiring often wants to be biased. AI can enable this subtly, simply by tweaking a few parameters. There is also an innate human need to always know whether one is interacting with a human or a machine. Yet it is often in a company's interest to conceal that the engagement is with AI. For instance, people may be fine living in homes designed by AI, but they need to know that. They would be far less comfortable reading novels entirely written by AI, even if they are works of pulp fiction. In the near future, publishers may release AI-generated books created in a single day, while actively hiding that fact. This raises the need for an industry standard to govern such practices. But is that even possible? Can ethics keep pace with the rapid evolution of AI? Ethics, after all, is a broad, ambiguous set of rules based on what we know. The future will present wholly unfamiliar scenarios. Who, then, will set the ethical rules for what is yet to come? We like to talk about ethics because it represents a part of morality that remains outside the purview of the State. We want to be seen as good people — while keeping the law and the government out of our businesses. But that is also why ethics lacks teeth. Morality, outside religion and the law, is just statement of intent. Legality, by contrast, is a formalised version of ethics — those ideas a society has agreed upon and encoded into law. But legality implies regulation, and regulation implies government. So, how willing will businesses be to articulate ethical standards, knowing that doing so may invite legal oversight? These are some of the questions that will be discussed during The Hindu Huddle session titled 'AI for all? The dream of a democratised and ethical technology'. The participants are Astha Kapoor, co-founder, Aapti Institute; Kalika Bali, senior principal researcher, Microsoft Research, India; and Tanvi Lall, Strategy, People+AI, and the conversation will be moderated by Manu Joseph, author, columnist, and screenwriter. The Hindu Huddle will be held on May 9 and 10 in Bengaluru. If you have any questions that you would like our moderator to ask the panellists, write to us at huddle@
