India, Feb. 2 -- Kolkata - Artificial intelligence is advancing so rapidly that it could replace surgeons, software engineers and billions of jobs worldwide, futurist, scientist and scholar at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry, Sraddhalu Ranade, warned on Saturday, calling the transformation "irreversible" and far more disruptive than any previous technological shift.

Speaking at the SKC Memorial Trust Lecture at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture (RMIC), Golpark, Ranade, who is known for his ability to seamlessly integrates scientific knowledge with philosophical, metaphysical and spiritual knowledge, said AI has had a "radical and destabilising" impact on humanity over the past three years, challenging every field of human...