A top AI expert says most outsourced coders in India will be out of a job in 2 years thanks to the technology

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A top AI expert says most outsourced coders in India will be out of a job in 2 years thanks to the technology

Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque thinks AI will eliminate most outsourced coding jobs in India.
This isn't the first time he made such a bold call.
He previously said AI would make most programmers obsolete in 5 years.

AI will soon eliminate most outsourced coding jobs in India as the technology will drastically reduce the need for them, according to a leading AI expert.

India's "outsourced coders up to level three programmers will be gone in the next year or two, whereas in France, you'll never fire a developer," Emad Mostaque, the CEO of Stability AI, said in a call with UBS analysts, attributing these differences to better workers' protections in France.

The comments were reported by CNBC on Tuesday.

There are about five million coders based in India, according to an April 17 Bloomberg report.

This isn't Mostaque's first bold claim about AI. In an interview on the Moonshots and Mindsets podcast posted on June 29, Mostaque — whose company created Stable Diffusion, a tool that transforms text into AI-generated art — predicted AI could replace most programmers in five years.

He later caveated his comment saying he was specifically referring to traditional coders.