India, Oct. 27 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) is more likely to automate specific tasks within jobs than eliminate entire professions, with its impact on employment in India depending on the nature of work, the cost of technology and how organisations restructure roles, according to a new white paper by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.

The paper, 'How AI Is Reconfiguring Work in India: A Task-Based Framework for Understanding Augmentation, Displacement, New Roles and the Changing Structure of Jobs,' made available at IIT Madras website on Monday, argues that assessing AI's impact by looking at entire professions can obscure how the technology changes work and affects different groups of workers.

The white...