The Autopilot Paradox: When Your Phone Starts Paying For You

TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY Imagine telling your phone, "Order the monthly groceries and pay for them." You go back to your tea. The phone does the rest. India is getting ready for exactly this. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which runs UPI, is reportedly working on a system that would let AI assistants pay on your behalf. It sounds like pure convenience. But it raises an old question in a new form: if the machine makes a mistake with your money, who pays? What is being planned

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