Tech billionaire and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has delivered a stark warning on the future of work, predicting that artificial intelligence could render traditional employment obsolete within decades and wipe out India’s outsourcing industry far sooner.

Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi during a session themed Founders & Funders: The India AI Capital Ecosystem, Khosla said, “By 2050, it will be clear that no one will need jobs.”

He argued that AI’s accelerating capabilities would fundamentally reshape white-collar employment. “Artificial intelligence could eliminate large parts of white-collar employment,” he said, adding that IT services and business process outsourcing (BPO) firms could “almost completely disappear” within the next five years.

‘No such thing as IT services by 2030’

Reiterating his view, Khosla said: “It’s very clear to me people in India don't believe something will happen to IT. By 2030 there will be no such things as IT services or BPO. Those are gone. Those are disruptive and people are not paying enough attention.”

He also took aim at long corporate tenures. “If someone works in Cisco for 15-20 years I consider them unemployable, you get ossified in big companies,” Khosla said, suggesting adaptability will define employability in an AI-driven economy.

Backing sovereign AI, investing in Sarvam

Even as he warned of disruption, Khosla praised India’s AI push. “India has done a good job and some of them have been an unbelievable successful. At the policy level, they are doing the right thing. The idea of a sovereign model is a very good idea. I have long believed countries should have sovereign AI,” he said.

Backing that conviction, he added: “That’s why we invested in Sarvam. Cannot have foreign models for cyber security and defence.”

Calling the summit “unbelievably successful,” he remarked on its scale: “One of my nieces couldn't register, more than 3,00,000 had registered.”

For India, he said, AI’s most transformative promise lies in public health. “Most important thing to do in AI to provide a near free AI doctor to every Indian 24*7,” Khosla said — underscoring both the scale of disruption ahead and the opportunity it presents.