Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal reacts after LinkedIn removes his post on 'pronoun illness': 'Rich of you to call...'

On Monday, Bhavish Aggarwal had asked LinkedIn's AI bot about himself and shared a screenshot of the reply, in which the chatbot had used "they" and "their" to address the CEO.

Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal criticised social networking platform LinkedIn after they removed his post on "pronoun illness" and claimed that their artificial intelligence (AI) tool was "imposing a political ideology on Indian users that’s unsafe, sinister".

Writing on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday, Aggarwal said that it was "rich of" LinkedIn to call his post unsafe and emphasised the need to develop own tech and AI in India.

"Dear @LinkedIn this post of mine was about YOUR AI imposing a political ideology on Indian users that’s unsafe, sinister."

"Rich of you to call my post unsafe! This is exactly why we need to build own tech and AI in India. Else we’ll just be pawns in others political objectives," Aggarwal wrote on the platform.

Dear @LinkedIn this post of mine was about YOUR AI imposing a political ideology on Indian users that’s unsafe, sinister.

Rich of you to call my post unsafe! This is exactly why we need to build own tech and AI in India. Else we’ll just be pawns in others political objectives. pic.twitter.com/ZWqiM90eT1

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— Bhavish Aggarwal (@bhash) May 9, 2024

"Completely agree on this. This is pure play woke agenda at play," one user wrote.

"Can't agree more @bhash , it's a dangerous precedent. Close to technology terrorism. Compromising values for the sake of using technology. A Big no," another user wrote.

On Monday, Aggarwal had taken to X (formerly Twitter) to offer his thoughts on gender pronouns. He had asked LinkedIn's AI bot about himself and shared a screenshot of the reply, in which the chatbot had used "they" and "their" to address the CEO.

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