By India Today Education Desk
Publication Date: 2026-10-12 00:30:00
As technology companies cut jobs and invest in artificial intelligence, Usha Srikanth, a member of the IBM India Board of Directors and Managing Partner at IBM Consulting, has a warning for organisations embracing AI: productivity cannot come at the cost of human judgement.
Speaking at the Project Management South Asia Conference (PMSAC) 2026 in Bengaluru on October 3, Srikanth described how AI is altering the nature of work, from software development to project management and recruitment.
“Three years back, all that we bothered about was building the code, and the code building was 60% of our programme. Today, code building is 10% of our programme,” she said, recounting a conversation with a project team at a major global airline.
“Knowing the context, knowing the process is important,” she added.
Her remarks come amid a wave of job cuts across the technology industry. More than 100,000 technology jobs have been reported lost worldwide in 2026, as companies…