India’s top tech leaders call for creating awareness about ethical use of AI

This should be commensurate with awareness of responsible and ethical use of AI without curbing innovation, they said at the second edition of The Economic Times Digital Transformation Dialogues in Bengaluru, moderated by ET's Beena Parmar.

The technology services world is moving towards the platforms and products operating model, which will increasingly rely «not on seniority or experience, but on your ability to deliver on your role,» said Sandhya Arun, chief technology officer at Wipro, which operates in an industry where revenue has traditionally been linked to the headcount.

«A role itself has many tasks. If you break it down, some of those tasks will get automated, will get handed off to AI, but the role itself will transform as opposed to the role disappearing if you are doing something relevant such as impacting business value, delivering products ensuring quality and security,» Arun said.

Because of this, Wipro is training its next gen, or young associates, to become full stack to work across frontend and backend of technology applications.

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In mid-2023, Wipro launched an initiative to invest $1 billion in advancing AI capabilities over three years under its ai360 strategy, which is aimed at creating an ecosystem to integrate AI into every facet of the company. The foundation of this effort is reskilling the company's entire workforce of almost 240,000 lakh people, she said.

For Teamlease, a mass talent recruitment provider to companies like Wipro, the onset of AI has completely changed the world as demand from clients requires it to be able to find candidates who have the AI skills on demand.

«We have candidates who are using AI to generate resumes which match the job description. There is