Post by NITI Aayog

In an opinion piece published in Mint, Shri R. Balasubramaniam, Member, NITI Aayog, and Dr. Debjani Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, NITI Aayog, discuss how India can address concerns around AI’s impact on jobs while harnessing its potential to create new opportunities for growth, productivity, and innovation. The article highlights that AI is likely to reshape tasks and workflows, increasing the importance of human capabilities such as judgment, creativity, empathy, domain expertise, and problem-solving. It underscores the need to equip India’s workforce with future-ready skills and strengthen pathways for success in a human-plus-AI economy. The authors emphasize the importance of coordinated efforts across government, industry, and academia to transform AI adoption into an opportunity for higher-value employment, workforce development, and inclusive economic growth. #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork Narendra Modi | Rao Inderjit Singh | Ashok Lahiri | R Balasubramaniam | Debjani Ghosh