“End of Middle Class …”: Atomberg founder warns that AI will hit jobs with white collars in India

Atomberg founder Arindam Paul has issued a strict warning to the AI ​​crisis in India. “Almost 40-50 percent of the white collar jobs that exist today can stop existing,” Paul wrote at LinkedIn, adding that if that happens, it will mark the end of India’s middle class and his story of consumption.

His comments follow similar concerns caused by Zoho co-founder Seridhar Wambu, who also sounded the alarm for the future of software jobs in India in a world dominated by A.

“I think most people, including our leaders, still understand how big a threat to our economy can be,” Paul wrote, citing the deep risks in which India is facing, as artificial intelligence has taken on tasks traditionally managed by white collars.

“Our production is nowhere close to the place where it should be when it comes to generating jobs paying 3-6 lacquers a year,” Paul added, pointing to India’s failure to build a stable industrial base that could mitigate the blow of reducing white collars.

Taking direct target to India’s leader and BPO sectors, Paul warned that they would notice “a major reduction in labor and in many cases in their business”. While he believes that companies like Infosis “survive, and some can even progress”, he was blunt in saying, “They will not hire almost as many people as they do.”

“Almost 40-50 percent of white collar jobs that exist today may cease to exist,” Paul repeated, stressing that such a change would “mean the end of the middle class and the story of consumption.”

He also criticized corporations for being short -sighted in celebrating A. efficiency.

“While all corporations are happy today that AI will reduce the workforce and increase efficiency and improve the bottom line, they forget that without jobs and money in the hands of consumers, there will be no heat,” he wrote.

While hoping that his predictions do not materialize, Paul said: “I hope none of this has happened and we continue to develop our GDP at both an absolute level, as well as at a per capita level, but I also think this is the most likely scenario for India, unless we really double production.”

Paul’s post echoes on Zoho, Sridar Wambu, who recently wrote to X that he is “pessimistic about the software market, even before laughing at AI.” Wambu warned of the “massive capacity” in the IT sector and “multiplier inefficiency” in outsourcing services, adding that AI can eventually swallow much of the Boilerplate code that drives large IT projects.