New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- India's technology outsourcing services are likely to "die out" over the next five years, as artificial intelligence automates most software programming and quality engineering tasks, according to Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures and early-stage investor in OpenAI-the world's most valuable AI startup.

Khosla, who cofounded Sun Microsystems and invented Java -once the world's most used programming language-also pitched for India to build an "Aadhaar-like AI stack of public utilities," stating that creating AI as a public-sector utility will help "truly democratize" the technology's capabilities.

"I'm proposing that every Indian can get a free doctor 24x7 because of AI, which can then be triaged selectively t...