Stability AI CEO: due to artificial intelligence, most outsourced programmers in India will disappear within two years

CTOnews.com, July 18 (Xinhua)-- according to CNBC, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque recently said that due to advances in artificial intelligence technology, it is now possible to use less manpower to develop software, and most Indian programmers will face unemployment.

▲ shows Stable Diffusion, a product owned by Stability AI, adding that generative AI will have a different impact on different types of jobs, but not everyone will be affected to the same extent.

To a large extent, this is something that varies from country to country. For example, French programmers may be more protected than Indian programmers. In India, outsourced programmers below level 3 will disappear in the next year or two, while in France, you will never fire developers.

CTOnews.com previously quoted Bloomberg as saying that India has more than 5 million programmers who are most threatened by advanced artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT. N. Ganapathy Subramaniam, chief operating officer of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., the largest outsourcer in India (and Asia), told Bloomberg earlier this year that the company has sent out 46000 campus recruits this year. In recent conversations, every customer is talking about generative AI and ChatGPT.

CP Gurnani, chief executive of Tech Mahindra and a veteran of the IT services industry for 40 years, said he found students worried at a previous guest lecture at the Indian Institute of Technology in Hyderabad because the changes brought about by AI were fast approaching. He gave advice to the students: cheer up and get ready.