Into the Future: On Working with AI Colleagues

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:43:08 +0000

These days, I often come across articles discussing the impact of AI on jobs. I hear many conversations about AI replacing humans at work. I am privy to oft-repeated jokes and judgments about the reduced need for teachers and the threat to offline teaching from online models. Honestly, I feel a little nervous, like a mortal human, when conversations claim that AI poses a risk to my profession by performing, if not a better, at least an at-par job. But then, amid a clutter of several other more immediate, more urgent reasons to be anxious, I also feel amused by such claims. One of my super-favourite imaginations is of humans working with AI colleagues. It leads to many interesting questions and contradictions, which I share in this feature.