India, Sept. 24 -- BusinessWire India

New Delhi [India], September 24: At Startup Policy Forum's "Meet the OGs" series in the Bay Area, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla shared a bold five-year outlook for India's IT and BPO sectors. Speaking exclusively to a delegation of Indian startup founders, he predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) will transform global services, replacing traditional IT and BPO roles, but also creating an unprecedented opportunity for India to lead the next wave of AI-driven innovation.

"All of BPO will be replaced. All IT services will be replaced in the next five years," Khosla said. "Every company in the world could operate with half the number of people-but they don't know how to do it. Productivity would...