Average employees v/s AI powered babudom
June 1, 2026Amazon’s abandoned AI leaderboard is not really a story about artificial intelligence. It is a story about incentives.
Category: Economics and Society
AI, Loneliness, and the Danger of Endless Conversation
May 17, 2026I suffered a stroke two years ago. My speech was gone. My ability to express myself was gone. ChatGPT helped me rebuild that. Patient, non-judgmental, always there. I like AI. I am grateful for what it gave back to me. Now I…
AI From the Practitioner’s Seat
April 2, 2026Not another AI think-piece. This is what daily use actually feels like — what it does to judgment, craft, and the way you think. From the practitioner’s seat.
Language Without Consciousness – What AI-to-AI conversation reveals about us
February 2, 2026My dog Cookie and my brother’s dog Luna “talk” to each other all the time. Not in English. Not in words. But in signals, tone, rhythm, posture. To them, it is a complete conversation. To me, it is noise I partly understand…
Who Owns the Truth? The Neo-Colonialism of Big Tech
May 24, 2025“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”— A.J. Liebling Today, that freedom belongs not to journalists, but to billionaires. In the past, owning a press meant printing influence. Today, owning a platform means owning perception. Elon Musk…
Humanity at the crossroads – Innovation, Ethics, and the Future of AI
March 6, 2024This appeared in the FPJ on the 30th of December 2023 It has been the year when Artificial Intelligence took center stage of technology and policy discourse. Once the realm of science fiction books and films, AI is now very real. Conversations…
Israel-Hamas Conflict: Battling Fake News & AI In the Digital Era
January 7, 2024This appeared in FPJ in early December On October 11th, CNN journalist Sara Sidner sent waves of horror and shock across the world, when she reported that 40 Israeli babies were beheaded by Hamas. A few days earlier, on October 7th Hamas…
A Balancing Act: Navigating The Intersection of AI & Human Creativity In The Entertainment Industry
January 7, 2024This appeared in the FPJ in November 2023 Earlier this year, Hollywood writers and actors felt the threat of AI’s shadow looming over their careers. Fearing job losses and losing creative control, they came together to strike, demanding protection and fair compensation….
India’s Moonshot, Chandraayan 3, and the Quest for Scientific Excellence
January 7, 2024This appeared in the FPJ, on the 23rd of August 2023 At precisely 6:03 pm, last evening, the Lander Module of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) made a gentle touchdown on the moon’s surface. Cheers erupted not only from the ISRO…
De-Dollarising BRICS – A New Model For Global Trade
January 7, 2024This appeared in the FPJ on August 11th 2023 About 18 months ago, as it came out of COVID lockdowns, the United States of America was staring into a financial abyss – a combination of high unemployment, and high inflation. During the…