India, June 9 -- TCS Chairman N. Chandrasekaran has said he expects the company to have as many artificial intelligence (AI) agents as human employees within the next three years.

"If the company has half a million employees, the day is not far when it will have half a million AI agents," he was quoted as saying by Business Standard while speaking at the company's 31st Annual General Meeting (AGM).

He added that the future workplace will be defined by close collaboration between humans and AI agents. "The question will be what all can be done by agents, and those tasks will be handled by them. Employees and AI agents will work together-that will be the future," he said.

Commenting on hiring trends, Chandrasekaran noted that the pace of...