New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- "Will AI take my job? is one of the most searched career questions globally. Silicon Valley's most prominent voices have been racing to answer it, and their predictions keep growing bolder. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes the technology will reach into every job that exists and could even bring in a four-day workweek. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has gone further, saying humans may soon not be needed "for most things," while Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk has predicted that most people won't need to work at all within "less than 20 years."

Now Geoffrey Hinton, the British computer scientist known the world over as the "Godfather of AI," has entered the conversation with the starkest prediction yet. Opinion remain...