India, Feb. 8 -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most transformative technologies in recent years, and a leading tech expert has warned that highly technical jobs, such as software engineering, could become largely obsolete within the next 12 months.

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, highlighted the trend during the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Amodei further cautioned about the speed of transformation in the software engineering profession: "I think. I don't know. we might be six to twelve months away from when the model is doing most, maybe all of what SWEs (software engineers) do end to end. Then it's a question of how fast does that loop close."

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