The rise of AI is in global headlines, but with its growth, there is also a growing concern: what will happen to the jobs? Will AI play human roles, or will it help people do better work? In the last few months, some of the biggest names in the technical world including Vinod Khosla, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and others have publicly spoken about what AI think of AI for the future of work. While opinion varies slightly, a common theme is: AI will change deeply how people work in industries.

Vinod Khosla has warned of a major shake-up in India’s IT region

Indian-American enterprise capitalist Vinod Khosla has been particularly vocal about the potential threats to India’s traditional technical industry. Speaking at a podcast organized by Zerodha’s co-founder Nikhil Kamath, Khosla said that the business process outsourcing (BPO), a field that employs millions of Indians, may disappear in its current form. In his words, “BPO will disappear as a business.”

Khosla did not stop at BPO. He also stated that even IT services, which are a backbone for India’s economy, will need a large -scale overhaul. “Software IT services will mostly disappear. The disappearance means that it is very fundamentally conversion,” he said. According to him, whether these companies survive or not will depend on how quickly and efficiently they change.

In another podcast, Khosla compared today’s AI-operated technological changes, which occurred during the 1960s, but said that the speed is more intense now. “I have never seen such a cycle,” he said, AI exposing almost every task and even physical products, highlighting it.

He believes that in a few years, AI will be able to handle 80 percent of the most human jobs. “Within the next five years, any economically valuable job can be done by humans, AI will be able to 80% of it.” Khosla predicted that by 2040, most people may not need to work to earn alive and can only work for personal satisfaction instead.

Google CEOs improve work to AI, do not replace workers

While Khosla’s warning was rather fast, the alphabet and Google CEO had a more balanced view of beautiful pichai. Talking with Lex Fridman at his podcast, Pichai said that AI equipment is already helping Google Engineers to write code. He revealed that about 30 percent of the code in Google now uses AI aid in some form or the other.

However, Pichai reported that AI has not slowed hiring. Conversely, he said that Google is planning to hire more software engineers as AI that allows to do is increasing. He said that thanks to AI, the company has seen a 10 percent increase in engineering pace. “We estimate the number is now 10 percent,” Pichai said, referring to improvement in productivity.

He also mentioned that engineers now enjoy more freedom as the AI handles the repetition parts of the job, which allows them to focus on problems and design work–such tasks that find many more satisfactory.

Truth Nadella focuses on changing how people work, not only what they do

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is emphasizing another important point – while AI equipment is rapidly improved, the big challenge is helping people to customize their work processes.

In a firecusside chat hosted by Y Combinator, Nadella said that when people start working with the AI system like agents that can carry out tasks on their behalf, it forces a change to change how jobs are done. He explained that as AI works more regularly, the nature of roles and responsibilities would develop.

He pointed to the changes already occurred within the ecosystem of Microsoft. For example, in LinkedIn (who owns Microsoft), the company is merging various roles such as product design, engineering and management, known as “full-stack builder”. This shows how AI makes it possible, in response to how the definitions of the job are being updated.

Microsoft, like many other companies, is restructuring its workforce. In May, it announced a plan to cut around 6,000 jobs. Although the company clarified that the step was not based on employee performance, the report stated that the goal was to trim the middle management and ensure more direct participation of engineers in projects.

NVIDIA boss says all jobs will feel impact

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang offered a realistic but optimistic approach. While he admitted that many jobs would be affected and some could disappear, he was confident that AI would also create new roles.

“Everyone’s job will be affected. Some jobs will be lost. Many jobs will be born,” he said. His company makes powerful chips a power AI tool, so it is at the center of this revolution. According to him, AI will make many tasks faster and cheaper, which can reduce the need for some workers, but also open new opportunities in areas such as AI development, data science and high end engineering.

He also hoped that the A-LED development could benefit the economy in such a way that helps in all sections of society.

Anthropic CEO says AI will coding rapidly

Dario Amodi, CEO of AI firm Anthropic, is among those who believe that AI is moving very quickly in specific areas, especially software engineering. Speaking at an event by Council on Foreign Relations, Amodi said that AI may write 90 percent code within the next three to six months. He said that in a year of time, AI may be able to handle almost all coding tasks.

Such a prediction, if this is true, how do companies contact software development, making human programmers more like supervisors than real coders.

Openai’s Kevin Wayle hopes AI to become your digital teammate

Kevin Weel, who served as the Chief Product Officer in Openai, made a similar prediction. On a podcast called overpower, he said he would not be surprised if AI could handle most coding tasks before 2027. Veal believes that the way the AI models are improving, it is only at any time before at any time, not only trained engineers, AI can manufacture software using devices.

However, he said that this does not mean that human workers will disappear. Instead, people will work closely with AI, using it like an assistant that can handle basic functions. “People are going to be fast like managers of these AI employees,” he said.

Openai CEO Sam Altman agrees to require less software engineers in the future

Openai CEO Sam Altman, who leads the company behind Chatgpt, also weighed the subject. In a conversation with tech analyst Ben Thompson on Stratekari, Altman said that AI is already doing a large part of coding in many companies. “I think in many companies, it is probably 50 percent now,” he said.

He hopes that engineers will become far more productive in the near period. But after all, AI depends on rapid improvement that the number of engineers may decrease. He said that the next major jump would come up with “agentic coding”, which refers to the AI system that can act almost like autonomous developers.