ChatGPT impact: Microsoft report finds 74% Indian workers fear losing jobs to AI

The next generation of AI will unlock a new wave of productivity growth, removing the drudgery from our jobs and freeing us to rediscover the joy of creation.

A new Microsoft report themed around “Will AI fix work” revealed that around 74% of Indian workers are worried that AI will replace their jobs following the rollout of tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Bing Chat. The 2023 Work Trend Index surveyed 31,000 people across industries in 31 countries, including India.

While over 70% of Indians express fears of losing their jobs, the report also highlights that a majority of them also use AI to enhance productivity. 90% of the employers believe that the employees they hire will need new skills to adapt to the growth of AI. Additionally, 78% of Indian workers indicate that they currently lack the necessary skills to fulfill their job requirements.

“Research shows 83 per cent of Indian employees are willing to delegate as much work as possible to AI to lessen their workload,” the report said. More than 3 in 4 Indian leaders (84 per cent) said that they are concerned about lack of innovation. “The primary culprit disrupting productivity is inefficient meetings, as reported by 46 per cent of Indian workers who feel that their absence in half or more of their meetings would go unnoticed by colleagues,” the report said.

Microsoft India Country Head — Modern Work Bhaskar Basu said that as the nature of work evolves, AI promises to be the biggest transformation to work. The next generation of AI will unlock a new wave of productivity growth, removing the drudgery from our jobs and freeing us to rediscover the joy of creation. The opportunity and responsibility for every organisation and leader is to get AI right — testing and experimenting with new ways of working to build a brighter future of work for everyone,” he said.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is going to educate 6,000 students and 200 teachers in the nation in digital and cyber-security skills via the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Directorate General of Training (DGT) under the Ministry of Skills Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE).

As part of this collaboration, Microsoft will provide students and 200 faculty members at government-led Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and National Skills Training Institutions (NSTIs) with training in a wide variety of subjects, including artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, web development, and cybersecurity skills. These subjects will be covered in a variety of different classes. According to Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Skill Development, Electronics and Information Technology, “with the increasing prevalence of cyber threats such as data breaches, hacking attempts, identity theft, and malware attacks, individuals, organisations, and nations face significant challenges in safeguarding their digital assets.” [Cyber threats include] “data breaches, hacking attempts, identity theft, and malware attacks.”

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