The AI Doomsday Reels Are Wrong About One Thing
CeeVee’s Corner | Editorial | Oct 2026
Lately, my feed has been full of reels telling me the end is near. AI will take our jobs. AI will outsmart us. AI, some say with great conviction, could wipe out humanity altogether. I watch them, I scroll past, and then I watch a few more. They are designed to make us anxious, and they do their job well.
But somewhere inside me, the optimist refuses to sign up for the doomsday. I don’t dismiss the risks. I simply believe the story isn’t finished yet, and we are the ones still writing it.
The day I cried in front of my laptop
Almost a year ago, I had my first real taste of vibe coding. I described an idea in plain words, and within minutes I watched it take shape on my screen. I cried that day. I wrote an article about it back then. Not because of the code, but because of what it meant. Ideas that had lived in my notebooks for years suddenly had a path to reality.
As an entrepreneur, I feel more empowered now than ever before. I run multiple businesses and explore several ideas at once, because AI does much of the heavy lifting for me. The constraint is no longer “can I build this?” It is “should I build this, and why?”
I saw this first hand with Tulsy AI, a platform I’m part of, that nudges women towards better health and longevity by helping them understand their own biology. A product like this would once have taken at least two years to build and launch. With AI-assisted coding, we went from ideation to launch in a few months. That is not a small shift. That is a whole new way of creating.
And the possibilities go far beyond apps.
At the launch of my book, The Judgement Economy, I wore a 25-year-old Kanchipuram Silk Saree to narrate the story of how the power looms in the Kanchipuram district took away the century-old artisans’ jobs in the 90s, and how Generative Adversarial Networks are now helping bring back ancestral designs and motifs while elevating the next generation of artisans in the region. Technology, in this case, isn’t replacing the craft. It is protecting it.
Then there is Sarlaben, the AI assistant launched by Amul in Gujarat. It aims to provide round-the-clock, personalised support to more than 36 lakh milk producers across over 18,500 villages, the majority of them women. It helps farmers with everyday decisions about cattle health, feeding, breeding, vaccination schedules and treatment, and can be reached through the Amul Farmer app or via voice calls for feature phones and landlines in Gujarati. Even the name was chosen with care: “Sarlaben” was picked to connect with the rural women who play a key role in Gujarat’s dairy cooperative network. Imagine a woman in a village, with a basic phone, being able to ask about her cow’s health at midnight and get a reliable answer in her own language. That is what hope looks like.
And the list keeps growing:
- Science and medicine: AlphaFold predicted the structures of hundreds of millions of proteins, work that earned its creators a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024. What once took a PhD student years can now take minutes, accelerating drug discovery and our understanding of disease.
- Genetics: AI models are helping scientists interpret genetic variants and flag which mutations may cause disease, bringing us closer to truly personalised medicine.
- Women’s health: In Sweden, a large trial found that AI-supported mammography screening detected more breast cancers while significantly reducing the reading workload on radiologists.
- Mathematics: AI systems reached gold-medal level at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2025, a sign that machines can now reason through problems we once thought only the brightest young minds could solve.
- Climate: AI weather models now produce ten-day forecasts in under a minute, and flood forecasting tools warn communities up to a week before rivers overflow. For vulnerable families, those extra days can mean the difference between loss and safety.
The point is this: there are enormous possibilities in front of us. AI can accelerate humanity and help heal our planet, provided it is in the hands of people with the right mindset.
This is why I believe the most important people at this juncture are our educators.
For years, we have taught people how to use tools. That is no longer enough, because the tools will teach themselves how to be used. What we need now is judgement. Educators must help the next generation understand why and where to use AI, not just how. When to trust it, when to question it, and when to put it down and think for ourselves.
Judgement is the one thing we cannot outsource. It is the human edge.
Governments, too, have a role that no single company or country can play alone. They need to come together and bring their collective wisdom to the table: accelerating the positive use cases in health, agriculture, education and climate, while firmly curbing the harmful ones. Regulation shouldn’t be about fear. It should be about direction.
I am hopeful
So yes, I will keep watching the doomsday reels now and then. But I won’t let them decide how I see the future.
I have seen what becomes possible when good intentions meet powerful tools. I have seen weavers, farmers, doctors and founders find new strength. And I have felt it myself.
I am hopeful. Because ultimately, hope is the most important asset we have in life. And unlike everything else in this new age, it is one thing no machine can generate for us.
Dr. CeeVee
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EDITORIAL BY
Dr. Chandra Vadhana R. (Dr. CeeVee) is an academic, author, entrepreneur, and impact strategist with a passion for empowering women, scaling social innovation, and embedding sustainability in business. With a PhD in management and over two decades of experience across academia and industry, she bridges education, entrepreneurship, and sustainability to create meaningful change. Dr. CeeVee is the founder of multiple purpose-driven ventures, including SheSight, ShePower Club, Prayaana Labs, and serves as a Senior Lecturer in Business at Monash University, Australia. Her work blends research, tech-enabled impact, and community building to shape a more equitable and regenerative future.
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