HYDERABAD: At a time when Artificial Intelligence is creating a threat of potential job displacement, there is a need to prepare for the ‘future of work’ in times of automation. Dr Nimmi Rangaswamy, associate professor at the Kohli Centre on Intelligent Systems, IIIT-Hyderabad believes that computer science and anthropology as disciplines can achieve heightened potential by working in tandem.
She is working to bring an anthropological lens in understanding the impacts of AI research. She is currently striving to understand automation of quality testing in the Indian IT job sector and how employees in this segment are responding to automation at different levels.
While the trends of automation and digitalisation have been researched extensively in developed countries, the same is not true for developing countries like India. For India, the degree of its technological development needs to match the imparting of technological skills to its young learners who are its future scientists, technologist, bankers, teachers and above all, productive citizens.