New Delhi, March 19 -- At every dinner party, Aaron 'Ronnie' Chatterji, OpenAI's first chief economist, faces a typical question: "Is AI going to affect my job? What's it going to do to the economy?" He says it's hard to give a straight answer simply because of the widely varying predictions.

"Some Nobel Prize-winning economists estimate AI's impact on GDP in the low single digits, while others expect double-digit growth. That's how uncertain things are," Chatterji told Mint in an interview during his India visit on Tuesday.

The effect of AI on jobs is similarly debated. "Some studies suggest AI will affect only a small fraction of jobs, while others say up to 80% of job tasks could change. We're still figuring out how AI will move thro...