New Delhi: Twenty-one-year-old Rehan, who works as a barber in Ghaziabad, is worried about his career after watching a video clip on social media showing a man getting a haircut from an automated machine.

“I don’t know what will happen to our work in five years,” Rehan said, expressing concern about his future livelihood. “If people can get a haircut from a machine, who will come to us?”

A video recently went viral on social media showing a man receiving a haircut from a street-side machine. Though the viral clip was AI-generated, it has sparked debate about the possibility of automated machines performing haircuts. The long-standing discussion about humans versus machines has taken on new urgency in the era of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

According to an Inte

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