{"id":1021954,"date":"2026-07-18T08:06:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021954"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:36:17","slug":"ai-wont-diminish-it-services-will-instead-make-it-more-vital-anand-mahindra-at-tech-mahindra-agm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/18\/ai-wont-diminish-it-services-will-instead-make-it-more-vital-anand-mahindra-at-tech-mahindra-agm\/","title":{"rendered":"AI won&#8217;t diminish IT services, will instead make it more vital: Anand Mahindra at Tech Mahindra AGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dismissing fears that artificial intelligence (AI) could kill India&#8217;s IT services industry, Tech Mahindra Chairman Anand Mahindra on Friday asserted that the sector&#8217;s role would &#8220;not diminish&#8221; but instead evolve and become even more critical in many ways. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Tech Mahindra&#8217;s annual general meeting (AGM), Mahindra said India cannot be only a consumer of intelligence built elsewhere. It must also be a creator, shaper and trusted deployer of intelligence, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dismissing fears that artificial intelligence (AI) could kill India&#8217;s IT services industry, Tech Mahindra Chairman Anand Mahindra on Friday asserted that the sector&#8217;s role would &#8220;not diminish&#8221; but instead evolve and become even more critical in many ways. Speaking at Tech Mahindra&#8217;s annual general meeting (AGM), Mahindra said India cannot be only a consumer of intelligence built elsewhere. It must also be a creator, shaper and trusted deployer of intelligence, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021970,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021954\/revisions\/1021970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}