AI-Led Jobs Benefit India: Meta India

I think it offers opportunities for new kind of jobs to get created...jobs may change in terms of what they look like now -- Sandhya Devanathan, V-P at Meta India

New Delhi: India is well-poised to take advantage of new jobs that emerge from advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to Meta India Vice-President Sandhya Devanathan. In an interview to PTI, Devanathan weighed in on raging debate around AI and its impact on jobs, saying she is of the firm belief that AI would now lead to new opportunities for India.

“I think that India is potentially well-poised to take advantage of new jobs that could come up with AI,” she said.

Devanathan said that the nature of jobs may change, however. “I think it offers opportunities for new kind of jobs to get created...jobs may change in terms of what they look like, but there will be new things that could end up coming up as a result of that (AI) and it would lead to new opportunities for us as a country,” she said.

The views assume significance in the backdrop of persistent debate in tech circles and civil societies on whether AI will augment the labour market or displace workers. The Economic Survey in July warned about potential challenges that AI could present, saying it will create barriers and hurdles to sustained high growth rates for India in the coming years and decades and that the corporate sector has a responsibility to think harder about ways AI will augment labour rather than displace workers.

Devanathan said Meta welcomes regulations which are ‘progressive’ and balance user safety and innovation.