India, March 19 -- India has a "unique" position in AI enablement due to its deep technology foundation and large pool of people who understand digital systems and processes, according to Babak Hodjat, Chief AI Officer at Cognizant.

Hodjat told media that while AI tools are increasingly generating more and more codes, developers will still be needed to build modular systems and evaluate the quality of outputs produced by AI."So this is not going to go to waste... A coder using AI is going to be well ahead of a non-coder using AI," he said.

Artificial Intelligence is empowering more professionals across fields, even though core tech expertise remains valuable, Hodjat believes.The recent India AI Impact Summit, held in New Delhi, showed t...