India, Feb. 20 -- Infosys Chairman Nandan Nilekani on Thursday said the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence could trigger a backlash unless its benefits are widely diffused and demonstrably useful to society, and the resentment among white-collar workers could potentially derail the technology's progress.

At a fireside chat with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the AI Impact Summit 2026, the Infosys co-founder said there is currently both a "race to the top" and a "race to the bottom" in AI development, with the latter moving faster and stressed that stakeholders must accelerate efforts to ensure AI is applied for meaningful public good.

"I think all of us who have a stake in AI being useful to humanity have to accelerate and redo...