Can AI be a threat to jobs is a question that has been doing the rounds for the last few months now. Several CEOs, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, have stated in the past that AI is likely to displace some jobs. Another top executive of an AI company echoed their comments, painting a bleak picture for Indian engineers and coders.
According to Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, most outsourced coders in India will lose their jobs in two years because it is now possible for software to be developed with far fewer people.
Stability AI is the company behind Stable Diffusion, a deep learning, text-to-image model released in 2022. This model allows users to generate detailed images on the basis of text inputs.
Different countries, different impact
In India, “outsourced coders up to level three programmers will be gone in the next year or two, whereas in France, you’ll never fire a developer,” Mostaque said, adding that the impact of the technology on technical jobs will vary from country to country.
He noted that programmers in France, for example, are likely to have more protections than those in India due to stronger labour laws in European countries. He also said that generative AI will also affect different types of jobs in different ways.
“So it affects different models in different countries in different ways in different sectors,” he added.
“If you’re doing a job in front of a computer, and no one ever sees you, then it’s massively impactful, because these models are like really talented grads,” the executive added.
According to a report from Bloomberg, India has over 5 million software programmers, who are most under threat from the impacts of advanced AI tools like ChatGPT.
AI in Indian IT services providers
India has three major IT service providers, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – the largest outsourcing provider — along with Infosys and Wipro. All the companies are now betting on AI and training engineers on the technology “to accelerate the adoption of this powerful new technology.”
According to Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, most outsourced coders in India will lose their jobs in two years because it is now possible for software to be developed with far fewer people.
Stability AI is the company behind Stable Diffusion, a deep learning, text-to-image model released in 2022. This model allows users to generate detailed images on the basis of text inputs.
Different countries, different impact
In India, “outsourced coders up to level three programmers will be gone in the next year or two, whereas in France, you’ll never fire a developer,” Mostaque said, adding that the impact of the technology on technical jobs will vary from country to country.
He noted that programmers in France, for example, are likely to have more protections than those in India due to stronger labour laws in European countries. He also said that generative AI will also affect different types of jobs in different ways.
“So it affects different models in different countries in different ways in different sectors,” he added.
“If you’re doing a job in front of a computer, and no one ever sees you, then it’s massively impactful, because these models are like really talented grads,” the executive added.
According to a report from Bloomberg, India has over 5 million software programmers, who are most under threat from the impacts of advanced AI tools like ChatGPT.
AI in Indian IT services providers
India has three major IT service providers, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – the largest outsourcing provider — along with Infosys and Wipro. All the companies are now betting on AI and training engineers on the technology “to accelerate the adoption of this powerful new technology.”
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