AI will replace surgeons, coders  and billions of jobs, warns Sraddhalu Ranade at MCHD-SKC Memorial Lecture

AI will replace surgeons, coders and billions of jobs, warns Sraddhalu Ranade at MCHD-SKC Memorial Lecture

Kolkata — Artificial intelligence is advancing so rapidly that it could replace surgeons, software engineers and billions of jobs worldwide, futurist, scientist and scholar at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry, Sraddhalu Ranade, warned on Saturday, calling the transformation “irreversible” and far more disruptive than any previous technological shift.

by Trans World Features February 01, 2026