{"id":992441,"date":"2026-02-16T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992441"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:00:21","slug":"ai-challenges-traditional-notions-of-literacy-hul-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/ai-challenges-traditional-notions-of-literacy-hul-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"AI challenges traditional notions of literacy: HUL Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence has changed the way people participate in society and overturned century-old assumptions that literacy is the foundation for progress and opportunity, said Nitin Paranjpe, Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Ltd.. <\/p>\n<p>He described AI as driving a \u201csilent revolution\u201d in which, for the first time, access to knowledge need not begin with text but can take place through voice. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, you don\u2019t need to read and write in order to be able to ask questions or learn a skill,\u201d Paranjpe said while delivering the lecture on \u2018Artificial Intelligence for Aam Aadmi\u2019 at the 44th Palkhivala Memorial Lecture in Chennai on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence has changed the way people participate in society and overturned century-old assumptions that literacy is the foundation for progress and opportunity, said Nitin Paranjpe, Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Ltd.. He described AI as driving a \u201csilent revolution\u201d in which, for the first time, access to knowledge need not begin with text but can take place through voice. \u201cFor the first time, you don\u2019t need to read and write in order to be able to ask questions or learn a skill,\u201d Paranjpe said while delivering the lecture on \u2018Artificial Intelligence for Aam Aadmi\u2019 at the 44th Palkhivala Memorial Lecture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}