Artificial Intelligence May Replace Humans for Job

While other developed countries like the United States and Britain are focusing on developing artificial intelligence in their country, the threat this growing dependence on the artificial intelligence has brought to the employment and economic sector is often being overlooked. In fact, India too is not lagging behind in this race of AI use and the examples of recent decades show how China and India are presenting two different models of AI.

The model presented by China shows a nation leveraging its large population and low costs to build a base of blue-collar manufacturing.

The Indian model shows a combination of a large English-speaking population with low costs to become a hub for outsourcing of low-end and white-collar jobs in business-process outsourcing and software testing fields. If such ventures are successful then these relatively low-skilled jobs can be upgraded to more advanced white-collar industries.

Both the countries have prepared their models based on cost advantage performance of repetitive, non-social and largely uncreative work — whether manual labour in factories or cognitive labour in call centres. Unfortunately for emerging economies, AI thrives at performing precisely this kind of work.