From job seekers to value creators: Youth in the AI era

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By Praveen RP, Co-CEO, Generative AI Business Services, Happiest Minds Technologies

Your degree was never really a knowledge certificate. It was a trust certificate.

An employer who has never met you cannot verify what you know, so they cede that judgement to an institution with a reputation to protect. In a country where verifying strangers is expensive, this is not laziness — it is the only mechanism that works at scale.

Artificial intelligence has just devalued one half of that certificate and left the other half entirely intact. Knowledge is now rentable by the hour, in any language, at almost no cost. What has not become cheap is the reason anyone believed you in the first place. Understand this properly and most of the confusion clears. The panic in engineering colleges right now is not really about AI writing code. It is about a generation discovering that the thing they...

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