Comments about AI taking away jobs zero, non-sense: IT MoS

Comments about artificial intelligence taking away jobs in India are “zero, non-sense, bakwas”, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday. The Minister of State for Electronics, Information, and Technology said Artificial Intelligence (AI) today is task-focused and essentially makes tasks more efficient, mimicking human behaviour. “I am sorry to be sounding cynical. In 1999, the whole of 1999, I heard how Y2K is going to wipe out the world. Then I hear AI will finish our jobs and there are obviously people who want to look at the worst-case scenario of any innovation. AI will finish our jobs, zero, non-sense, bakwas,” he said. “Generative AI today is task-focused and essentially makes tasks more efficient, mimicking human behaviour…,” he said.