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Sunday, September 14, 2025
TopicAutomation

Topic: Automation

Why it’s so difficult choosing a career for yourself — and 3 things you can do about it

Career decisions are a balancing act. You have to align your interests and aptitudes with the current demands of the labour market, neither of which are static entities.

Weathering the Storm: Preparing for a Recession with AP Automation

In the time of recession when companies have to carefully monitor their financial transaction, automation can be a boon for financial experts and planners making their jobs easier.

SubscriberWrites: Promise and perils of AI in the future

There is growing concern that these technologies will perpetuate joblessness among the poor and create a more divided society, writes Vamsikrishna Chandrasekharan.

Even China, India face labour shortages. Can automation rescue the world?

Adopting automation speeds up the manufacturing process and stretches scarce talent. It can even make the workforce more inclusive.

Automation would have eased some Covid economic pain, but the world isn’t prepared

The lockdowns wouldn’t have paralysed economies had we been less dependent on the presence of humans to sustain a certain basic level of economic activity.

The one job that will disappear by 2062 — the job of fighting wars

In 2062: The World That AI Made, Toby Walsh writes about the dangerous scenario of lethal autonomous weapons getting to decide who dies and who lives.

Workers might welcome robots taking over their jobs

A survey found a robotic takeover was easier to accept because it didn’t batter people’s self-image quite so brutally as being replaced by another human.

Automation & AI won’t make low-skilled jobs disappear

Companies must ensure that employees don’t get stuck in low-skilled jobs, but are instead able to grow in knowledge and skills.

Robots might turn out to be great co-workers

The idea that robots will render humans obsolete & take over their jobs maybe unlikely as nobody knows how many jobs will be replaced and how.

Artificial intelligence can take your job, so political leaders need to start doing theirs

AI should be an election issue, because there is virtually no job that won’t be affected by AI-driven automation.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.