New Delhi, Nov. 20 -- Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma seems to be backing Elon Musk's recent backing of artificial intelligence (AI), where he has been saying that AI would eliminate poverty.

He first made the comments at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, where US President Donald Trump hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Associated Press reported.

"I see poverty as more of an engineering problem than an unsolvable social issue. With Grok and Optimus, we could solve the labor shortage, drive costs to near zero, and create a future where poverty is statistically irrelevant," he said at the forum.

"The scale of what's coming over the next decade is really easy to underestimate," he said.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, wh...