Harnessing The AI Revolution - Imperatives For India’s Policy Makers
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[*]AI disruption could reshape over 38 million Indian jobs by 2030, demanding new skills and work categories.
[*]Generative and agentic AI offer India a chance to transition from cost-led services to global innovation hubs.
[*]Urgent investment in sovereign compute, green data centres, and foundation models is critical for India’s AI leadership.
"Twelve thousand job cuts at TCS", the headline should be India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) wake-up call. If the country’s service industry is reshaping its workforce because of recent disruptions, the AI revolution led by generative capabilities and agentic architecture is no longer at the gates. It is in the house.
By 2030, AI would reshape more than thirty-eight million Indian roles. Tasks will change, skills will evolve, and entirely new categories of work will emerge. The real question is not whether AI will alter our economy, but whether India will harness this shift to move from cost efficiency to innovation leadership.
AI is advancing at a blistering pace. Generative tools such as ChatGPT have already redefined content creation and software development, and the current wave, Agentic AI, will go further. These systems will not just answer queries; they will act. Managing supply chains, writing contracts, and booking logistics. Most Indian firms are already experimenting with AI agents or deploying them at scale, underlining that disruption is not a distant prospect but an imminent one. What once took decades in computing is now unfolding in months. Time, not technology, is India’s most significant constraint.
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