Google DeepMind executive: AI should enhance human capabilities rather than replace

At the recent "Invest in Karnatak 2025" conference held in Bangalore, many leaders from the technology industry gathered to discuss the change potential of artificial intelligence in India and its impact. Manish Gupta, senior director of Google DeepMind, delivered an important speech at the meeting, emphasizing that while promoting technological innovation, corresponding rules and regulations should be established to ensure responsible development.

Gupta pointed out that as India makes significant progress in building basic AI models, everyone is paying attention to the impact of AI on the job market. He said the responsibility of the technology industry is to develop artificial intelligence that can enhance human capabilities, rather than replace it. "In the future, everyone will have a powerful and versatile assistant, and a professional assistant who can help them learn skills, stay healthy, handle shopping and other matters." He encourages people not to be afraid of using such AI assistants.

Along with Gupta were also attending Ranganath Sadasiva, Chief Technology Officer of HP Enterprises in India and Caleb Munigety, Head of Indian Artificial Intelligence at Bosch Enterprises in India. Everyone agrees with this view. Munigiti pointed out that artificial intelligence will not eliminate work, but will change the form of work, just like the industrial revolution has brought people from farmland to factories.

While there are optimism from industry experts, there are also concerns that artificial intelligence will pose a threat to millions of software developers. According to recent research reports, the application of artificial intelligence in work focuses mainly on software and mathematical tasks, while relatively few operations involving the physical environment. 57% of these use cases show that AI is mainly used to enhance human capabilities, while 43% are used to automation.

Nevertheless, the current situation is that artificial intelligence tools still exist primarily as human assistants. For example, an independent software development tool called Devin is considered to be competent for tasks of junior software engineers. It does not perform well on fixed and clear tasks, but performs significantly differently outside the scope. Many developers believe that current AI tools still require human supervision to ensure the accuracy and effectiveness of the code.

Some platforms, such as Cursor, are growing rapidly, showing the potential of tools to enhance software development in the market. Despite the concerns in the use of artificial intelligence in software development, many developers still believe that AI is more like a partner than a replacement.