Opinion: AI at work
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The anxiety about artificial intelligence replacing jobs is understandable but often misdirected. History suggests that technology rarely eliminates work; it relocates it. The telephone did not end communication jobs — it multiplied them.
What AI does change is the premium on certain skills. Routine drafting, summarising and translating are becoming cheap. Judgement, taste, and the ability to ask the right question are becoming expensive.
For a young professional in Kerala, the practical implication is clear. Learn to direct the tools rather than compete with them, and invest in the one skill no model can fake on your behalf: clear, confident communication with other humans.
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4Summary activity
Summarise the writer’s advice for young professionals in 3 sentences.
5Speaking challenge
Speaking challenge
Do you agree that communication is the skill AI can’t replace? Argue for 2 minutes.
Say it out loud. Nobody is listening — that’s the point. Mistakes are allowed.