'Zero, nonsense, bakwas,' Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on AI finishing jobs
In a total rejection of the idea of AI taking away jobs from humans, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar termed it as “nonsense, bakwas, and zero". He reminded people of the 90's decade when people used to think that "Y2K will wipe out the world".
Before blatantly rejecting AI as a threat to humanity, the minister of electronics, information and technology, apologised for being 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, nonsense, bakwas," he said.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar applauded AI for being task-focused and essentially making tasks more efficient, mimicking human behaviour. He made the statement while talking to the media after the unveiling of the fully automated state-of-the art electromagnetic interference and compatibility laboratories at the Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER) on Friday. In the inauguration programme, he said that the government was working with a data sets programme where government anonymised data would be made available to Indian artificial intelligence researchers and start-ups.
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