🔍 Understanding the Challenge & Charting a Way Forward
⚙️ From Assembly Lines to Algorithms: A Changing Landscape
- Past disruptions (steam engines, assembly lines) hit low-skilled blue-collar jobs
- Digital age automated white-collar tasks via software & outsourcing
- Today, AI is reshaping all job levels, creating both visible and invisible crises
📉 A Dual Crisis in Employment
🧿 Visible Crisis
- 🔺 80% of the unemployed are youth, many educated
- 🚫 1 in 3 young Indians neither working nor studying
- 🏗️ India needs to create 90M+ jobs by 2030
🫥 Invisible Crisis
- 🤖 AI & automation are redefining jobs across all sectors
- 🧠 Key question: “How replaceable is my job with tech?”
🌐 AI: Disrupting the Job Hierarchy
- 👷♂️ Low-wage laborers → at risk of automation
- 🧑💻 Skilled professionals → threatened by generative AI
- 🎨 Creatives, coders, designers → increasingly vulnerable
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- ⚠️ No job category is fully immune
🎯 The Survival Skillset = Adaptability
🔐 Job Security Depends On:
- 🔄 Reskilling & continuous learning are non-negotiable
✅ Must-Have Skills
- 💻 Tech Literacy: Know your tools
- 📊 Data Literacy: Make sense of info overload
- 🎨 Human Skills: Creativity, critical thinking, empathy
🧠 Humanics: The Future-Ready Learning Framework
Introduced by Joseph Aoun
- 🛠️ Technical Ability: Collaborate with machines
- 📈 Data Discipline: Think algorithmically
- ❤️ Human Discipline: Be empathetic, creative, ethical
📚 Required shift: From rote → experiential & interdisciplinary learning