Infosys Chairman Nandan Nilekani on Thursday said the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence could trigger a backlash unless its benefits are widely diffused and demonstrably useful to society, and the resentment among white-collar workers could potentially derail the technology’s progress.
At a fireside chat with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the AI Impact Summit 2026, the Infosys co-founder said there is currently both a “race to the top” and a “race to the bottom” in AI development, with the latter moving faster and stressed that stakeholders…

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