New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- Devina Mehra, the founder and CMD of asset management firm First Global, feels that there is something to be learned from history going into the current technology and artificial intelligence (AI) led disruption in the jobs market.

In a post titled 'Technology disrupting jobs and what history tells us' on professional networking site LinkedIn today, the ace investor noted that past patterns show technology creates new jobs even while it disrupts the status quo.

"At least 50-70% of the tasks that Indian bankers were doing in the early 80s have been automated. On a static basis it would have appeared that the bulk of banking jobs would disappear. But the employment in banking has gone up, not down!" she said.

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