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Is AI really coming for your job? Chances are high if you're in India

Artificial intelligence is dramatically accelerating the automation of factories and taking over routine tasks such as customer service or telemarketing

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Bloomberg
Most studies of the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs and the economy have focused on developed countries such as the US and Britain. But through my work as a scientist, technology executive and venture capitalist in the US and China, I’ve come to believe that the gravest threat AI poses is to emerging economies.

In recent decades, China and India have presented the world with two different models for how such countries can climb the development ladder. In the China model, a nation leverages its large population and low costs to build a base of blue-collar manufacturing. It then