Sramana Mitra's answer to How will AI impact the future of India? - Quora

Artificial Intelligence, it seems, will deliver on its promise on many vectors. Low-skilled tasks that can be automated WILL be automated. This will start showing impact relatively soon. Some analysts like HfS research have projected a job loss of 640,000 by 2021. Moreover, automated code generators stand to replace human programmers at mass scale as well.