Srinagar, Oct. 3 -- Imagine walking into an office of 200 employees five years from now and discovering that the same volume of work is being completed by 80 people assisted by powerful artificial-intelligence systems.

Reports that once took hours are produced in minutes. Customer queries are answered automatically. Data are analysed instantly. Advertising material is drafted, translated and redesigned at extraordinary speed. Routine coding, documentation, scheduling and financial analysis require far fewer human hours.

For the company, this may be called productivity.

For the 120 people whose jobs have disappeared or fundamentally changed, it will mean something very different.

That simple contrast takes us to the heart of the Artifi...