Introduction: AI – Your Best Frenemy
Artificial Intelligence is your classmate who does your homework, but also tells the teacher that you did it. Available to 1.2 billion users around the world, and adopted eagerly in India, Artificial Intelligence has moved from being an imaginary concept, to a pesky roommate that knows when you sneaked extra sleep in the morning. The question is, not whether you can use AI for your benefit, because you already are. The question is, how much can AI do to you?
What You Can Do With AI?
Automate the mundane
AI can take over emails, manage your schedule and remind you to do things you already forgot about. 78 percent of large enterprises in India have already implemented AI to undertake core business operations.
Unleash your creative potential
Need help with a poetry, a logo or an instagram caption? AI can. Students, in particular, tend to use AI for creative purposes. Globally, 4 out of 5 students have admitted to using generative AI for their coursework.
Make more money
While humans are busy writing poetry, AI can be busy making money. Trading algorithms beat human counterparts, and the money spent on AI worldwide is set to cross $2.52 trillion by 2026. The financial sector is a favourite playground for AI.
Revolutionise healthcare (and your own health)
AI can identify cancerous cells quicker than any human ever could. While you are busy waiting for the results of your health checkup, an AI algorithm can be busy identifying cancerous cells.
What AI Can Do To You?
Take away your job
Robots don’t take regular breaks. With 40 percent of enterprise applications projected to have embedded AI by 2026, millions of jobs are at risk to be automated away.
Mess you up (in the best way)
Some algorithms like to make things up. Ask an AI for a recipe and it might tell you to cook your laptop in the microwave with WiFi as a garnish.
Spy on you
With 5,427 data centers that run AI in the United States alone, there is no doubt that every click you make is monitored. And now India has joined the league too.
Predict what you want
While you thought you were browsing for a treadmill, AI has known all along that you wanted one.
Interesting Facts and Figures
India has more AI users than the US, though the adoption rate per individual is far greater in the West.
Spending on generative AI software crossed $644 billion in 2025, growing phenomenally at a rate of 76 percent year over year.
South Korea leads the pack, in terms of most patents per person, proving that quantity alone is not a determinant of success.
Adoption rate of AI crossed 1.2 billion users worldwide, in just 4 years, making it the fastest growing consumer technology in history.
Conclusion: Laugh, Learn, and Stay Human
AI can be your best friend, but it can also be your biggest critic. AI can write poetry, diagnose illnesses and manage your finances. But it can also steal jobs, spy on you, and ask you to cook your WiFi router. So, what can you do with AI? Just about anything. What can AI do to you? Just about anything too. The only difference is that you cannot yet cook as well as AI, but AI will never be able to eat that amazing samosa you bought yesterday. And that is the advantage of being human.