The Martyrs of AI: Saving the IT Professionals Who Lost Jobs

I knew them from their engineering college days. Brilliant, hardworking and ambitious, they secured campus placements in reputed IT companies even before graduation. Promotions, handsome salaries, luxury cars and magnificent villas followed. IT seemed to promise unlimited prosperity.

Then came AI.

“We Lost Our Jobs. Can You Help Us?”

Initially, few considered it a serious threat to the IT industry. But AI advanced rapidly, disrupting business models, threatening enterprises and eliminating jobs once considered secure. Suddenly, these young professionals found themselves unemployed. Their dreams were shattered, their bank loans remained, and their future became uncertain. Even the AI industry offered no absolute security; competition intensified, and professionals and companies alike faced disruption.

In desperation, some of them discovered my work on Knowmatics, Dynamic Knowledge Banks and the Knowledge Industrial Revolution. They contacted me:

Doctor, we have lost our jobs. Can you help us? You have been working for the Post-AI Era.

My wife encouraged me to help these young professionals, whom we regarded almost as our own children. I asked them to study the strengths and limitations of IT and AI, and to explore the ideas presented on my website and social media platforms. Two months later, they returned with proposals for implementing Dynamic Knowledge Banks, Distributed Knowledge Factories and Outlets, Augmented Natural Intelligence, and AI–NI–KI integration.

A Different Direction

One of them said: “Doctor, AI may be approaching new limits. We cannot depend on ever-increasing computing power and investment alone. Your Knowmatics offers a different direction — integrating AI with human intelligence and creating millions of socially productive jobs and new enterprises.”

I expressed my concern: “But where will we find the capital, technology and manpower?” Their answer surprised me:

Doctor, the missing elements are not merely money or machines. We need inspiring ideas, theories, strategies and viable business models. You have given us a foundation. We can mobilise global expertise, technology and investment to take it forward.

I replied: “Then let us begin with a different understanding of wealth. Through Knowmatics and the Knowledge Industry, we can organise humanity’s vast reservoir of knowledge, create Dynamic Knowledge Banks, and establish distributed Knowledge Factories and Outlets. Every domain of human knowledge can become a source of new enterprises, meaningful employment and income generation.”

Architects of a New Civilisation

Together, they began building a Mega Knowledge Industrial Corporation, with the ambition of addressing human problems through knowledge-intensive solutions. They aspired to build a Knowledge Industrial Revolution capable of advancing humanity tenfold while promoting equity, dignity and freedom for all.

The former victims of technological disruption now saw themselves as potential architects of a new civilisation.

This is not just a fable. I am meeting more and more young professionals asking the same question: is AI the end of jobs, or the beginning of a new Knowledge Industry?

Is AI the end of your job, or the beginning of your own knowledge enterprise?