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Millions of techies and engineers who have built India’s multi-billion-dollar IT services industry have a new teammate: artificial intelligence. And embracing this partnership is no longer optional — resistance could mean the end of one’s career.
On Monday, during its earnings call, India’s largest IT company, Tata Consultancy Services, which wants to achieve “AI fluency at scale,” told analysts it now has 217,000 employees that have “higher order AI skills,” up from 180,000 barely a month ago.
TCS is training all its employees on working alongside and with AI. The world’s second largest IT services company told analysts last month that it was particularly keen on hiring “AI natives” — mostly young people adept at using a wide range of modern AI tools in their jobs.
