What should a 21-year-old do in the AI age? Mumbai's top founders answer

The fear is everywhere: AI is coming for jobs. But is it? In this ET Digital roundtable at Mumbai Tech Week, three of India's most prominent founders give an honest, unfiltered answer on what AI actually means for work, hiring and the next generation entering the workforce.From a "builder mindset" that now applies to every role, not just engineering, to the historical lesson of Excel and radiology, to the widening wealth divide emerging from Silicon Valley's AI boom, the panel separates real signal from hype. Their conclusion is neither doom nor unquestioning optimism: we are in flux, AI is a massivenet-positive, and the people building it bear a real responsibility to deploy it inclusively. In conversation with Deepak Ajwani (Editor, The Economic Times Digital):* Naiyya Saggi — Governing Council Member, TEAM | Founder, Good Glamm Group & EDT* Aakrit Vaish — Co-chair, TEAM | Co-founder & CEO, Haptik | Founder, Activate* Mayank Kumar — Governing Council Member, TEAM | Co-founder, upGrad & BorderPlus.Watch Part 1 — Mumbai as India's next tech ecosystem: https://youtu.be/4-m3aDysOUc