{"id":995788,"date":"2026-03-02T08:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995788"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:24:45","slug":"sridhar-vembus-list-of-jobs-safe-from-ai-sparks-fresh-controversy-heres-what-the-zoho-co-founder-wrote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/02\/sridhar-vembus-list-of-jobs-safe-from-ai-sparks-fresh-controversy-heres-what-the-zoho-co-founder-wrote\/","title":{"rendered":"Sridhar Vembu\u2019s list of jobs \u2018safe from AI\u2019 sparks fresh controversy: Here\u2019s what the Zoho co-founder wrote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As AI continues to reshape industries and spark fears of widespread job displacement, Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu has offered a unique perspective on roles likely to remain resilient. In a thoughtful post on X, Vembu argued that certain human-centred occupations, driven by purpose, care, culture, and community rather than productivity or financial gain, will endure untouched by AI advancements. <\/p>\n<p>Vembu\u2019s view suggests that AI poses the greatest threat to jobs where self-worth is tied to economic output, intellectual prestige, or efficiency metrics. However, pursuits rooted in self-motivation and human connection face no such risk. He highlighted examples of activities people undertake not for high pay, but for deep personal or societal meaning, which include:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As AI continues to reshape industries and spark fears of widespread job displacement, Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu has offered a unique perspective on roles likely to remain resilient. In a thoughtful post on X, Vembu argued that certain human-centred occupations, driven by purpose, care, culture, and community rather than productivity or financial gain, will endure untouched by AI advancements. Vembu\u2019s view suggests that AI poses the greatest threat to jobs where self-worth is tied to economic output, intellectual prestige, or efficiency metrics. However, pursuits rooted in self-motivation and human connection face no such risk. He highlighted examples of activities people [&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-995788","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\/995788","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=995788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}