India, Aug. 1 -- There was a time when power meant scale. Armies, empires, institutions. Today, a single person with a laptop and internet access can move markets, generate headlines, influence public discourse, or build tools that touch millions of lives. With AI, that power is multiplying fast.

We are now in a world where one person's skill can ripple through entire systems. A line of code, a prompt, or an automation script can decide who gets a loan, how a company is run, or how a generation learns to think. This is not science fiction. It is the present.

The question is no longer whether AI will change the world. It already is. The real question is who will shape that change.

That answer begins with how we skill people. Just like A...