A short history of automation panic and an argument for learning to build/train AI rather than only fearing it. One Consolidated History: From Calculators to Computers, ATMs, and the Internet in India “AI humara job kha jayega” is not a new sentence in Indian social life. It is the latest form of an old reflex that appears whenever a technology moves from assisting a worker to performing part of the worker’s role. If the word “AI” is replaced by “calculator,” “computer,” “AT