{"id":995055,"date":"2026-02-26T12:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995055"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:33:01","slug":"cognizant-chief-ai-officer-bets-on-ai-future-rejects-demise-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/26\/cognizant-chief-ai-officer-bets-on-ai-future-rejects-demise-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant chief AI officer bets on AI future, rejects demise narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Unfazed by fresh predictions of AI disruption, Cognizant chief AI officer Babak Hodjat, said the obituary of IT services has been written many times before \u2014 during the software era and again with the rise of SaaS. Now, as GenAI and agentic platforms reshape enterprise technology, similar questions are resurfacing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been here before,\u201d Hodjat told TOI. \u201cPeople have prematurely announced the demise of IT services. But each time, the need for engineering and customisation remained. If anything, we are needed even more now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Unfazed by fresh predictions of AI disruption, Cognizant chief AI officer Babak Hodjat, said the obituary of IT services has been written many times before \u2014 during the software era and again with the rise of SaaS. Now, as GenAI and agentic platforms reshape enterprise technology, similar questions are resurfacing. \u201cWe\u2019ve been here before,\u201d Hodjat told TOI. \u201cPeople have prematurely announced the demise of IT services. But each time, the need for engineering and customisation remained. If anything, we are needed even more now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995055","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}