IIT Madras AI head: AI will disrupt jobs, not doom humanity — the real risk is deploying it too early
ravi_iitm · x · 2026-10-12
Prof. Balaraman Ravindran, head of the Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI at IIT Madras, argues in a Rediff interview that AI will disrupt jobs but not doom humanity, and dismisses AI fear-mongering. His biggest fear: "humans are going to rush to deploy it before AI is ready" — the risk lies in premature deployment, not AI itself.
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