• The evolution from Homo sapiens to Homo faber
• Human Dignity vs Human Abasement by the Machine
• Chaplin’s Modern Times and Huxley’s Brave New World as twin warnings
• The double-edged nature of machines (lawn mower, vacuum, computer, auto-rickshaw)
• The AI question and the Pope’s warning about human control
• The call to keep Homo sapiens sovereign over Homo faber
• The final personal challenge: “Am I using this machine to deepen my life, or is it using me to thin it out?”
Tag Archives: Artificial intelligence
From Dorian Gray to King Yayati: A 70-Year-Old’s Epiphany on the Traps of AI
By M.K.Sudarshan June 27 2026: Chennai, India In Oscar Wilde’s classic novel, “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” (1891), a beautiful young man named Dorian Gray wishes that a painted portrait of himself would bear the physical burdens of his aging, hedonistic lifestyle, and moral decay, allowing his actual body to remain flawlessly young and untroubled.Continue reading “From Dorian Gray to King Yayati: A 70-Year-Old’s Epiphany on the Traps of AI”
Man’s unintelligent use of Artificial Intelligence
As you can see from the above chart , the most uses to which human intelligence is putting Artificial Intelligence is Chat … and the least of all uses seen way down in the list is for Education and Writing ! What does that tell me? It tells me that it makes no difference atContinue reading “Man’s unintelligent use of Artificial Intelligence”
The end of the Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-3 of 3) — Concluded
“THE TECHNICIANS” (or rather the TECHNOCRACY) “There is not much to be expected from the third group of Anglicized Hindus, and therefore there is not also much to be said…” … that’s how dismissively if not disparagingly does Nirad Chaudhury write about Technicians (or technocracy) of India in his 1965 book, “The Continent of Circe“.Continue reading “The end of the Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-3 of 3) — Concluded”
Why both Meta and I think Prime Minister Modi is very naive and over-ambitious about the AI Revolution
I sat down with Meta to have a long but such an engrossing conversation on what PM Modi said in his speech at the World AI Summit held in Paris yesterday 11th February 2025. Below is the transcript: DISCLAIMER: I am not a Luddite but I like to believe I’m always for the underdogs ofContinue reading “Why both Meta and I think Prime Minister Modi is very naive and over-ambitious about the AI Revolution”