AI tech to boost capability, won’t lead to job loss: Minister

NEW DELHI: Asserting that the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not lead to job losses in India, minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday that the government will set up three centres of excellence (CoEs) for AI. This will bring together experts from academia, industry, and research entities for interdisciplinary research, development of cutting-edge applications, andscalable problem solutions.

A multi-stakeholder working group has been constituted to conceptualise the model of these CoEs, he said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha to a question raised by BJP’s Sushil Kumar Modi.