新德里方面驳斥了华盛顿将美国科技行业的印度员工称为“契约劳工”的言论，称其“极其无礼”，这使得这两个昔日合作伙伴之间的关系进一步紧张。
New Delhi rejected as “deeply offensive” Washington’s labelling of Indian workers in the US tech sector as “indentured servants,” as ties between the erstwhile partners frayed further.
两国在贸易谈判中陷入僵局，因美国威胁要对印度购买俄罗斯石油实施制裁而发生争执，如今又在移民问题上陷入对立。
这一争端是印度IT行业面临的诸多风险之一，该行业约占印度GDP的7%。
The two countries have been mired in deadlocked trade negotiations, have sparred over the US threatening sanctions over India’s purchase of oil from Russia, and are now at loggerheads over immigration.
一位OpenAI员工最近在《Asterisk》杂志上写道：“西方公司雇佣印度员工是因为他们以低成本提供了巨大的价值。而人工智能似乎能以更低的成本提供更高的价值。”
The dispute is one of a number of risks to India’s IT sector, which contributes roughly 7% of the country’s GDP: “Western firms hired Indian workers because they provided lots of value for the cost,” an OpenAI staffer wrote in Asterisk magazine recently. “AI, it seems, could provide even more value, for even less cost.”— Prashant Rao
