AI, the disruption it's going to cause, what it does to Indian IT services and so on and so forth. Let's get the elephant out of the room and address that issue. The floor is all yours. Everyone is waiting to hear from you on that. Straight straight.
There is no question that AI is a fundamental technological change. I have called it a civilizational change. It is the next infrastructure change, like steam engines, electricity, and the internet. AI is the infrastructural change of intelligence.
It is the infrastructure of intelligence. Whenever such a change happens, these questions arise: What does it mean? What will it change? How do we adopt it? Will the world be the same? Will businesses exist? Who will win or lose? These questions have always existed. But history shows that such infrastructure changes unlock opportunities.
Steam engines made coal more efficient, so we should have used less coal, but we actually used more because latent demand was created. AI will change the cost structure of diagnosis, translation, and basic analysis, unlocking new opportunities. I am talking across industries, not just IT services. I will get to that.
Chandrasekaran, N. (2026, February 18). AI Is A Civilisation Shift; India IT Still In The Race: N Chandrasekaran | N18V [Interview transcript]. CNBC-TV18. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1009406/
MLA
N. Chandrasekaran. "AI Is A Civilisation Shift; India IT Still In The Race: N Chandrasekaran | N18V." CNBC-TV18, 18 Feb. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1009406/.
BibTeX
@misc{chandrasekaran2026_1009406,
author = {N. Chandrasekaran},
title = {AI Is A Civilisation Shift; India IT Still In The Race: N Chandrasekaran | N18V},
howpublished = {Interview transcript, CNBC-TV18. CEOInterviews.AI},
year = {2026},
month = {feb},
url = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1009406/},
note = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}
