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India Must Confront AI's Social Costs: A Looming Challenge for Jobs and Society

AI thrives in systems that are clean, digitised and interoperable.

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Moneycontrol•05-03-2026, 11:12

India Must Confront AI's Social Costs: A Looming Challenge for Jobs and Society

•AI's rapid adoption in boardrooms overlooks potential social costs, especially labor displacement.
•India's massive youth population (800M under 35) and informal labor market face significant job disruption risks from AI.
•Efficiency gains from AI could lead to large-scale workforce rationalization in manufacturing and services.
•Policymakers must urgently develop a national workforce transition framework, enhance regulatory capacity, and invest in broad human capital.
•The education and skills pipeline is currently unprepared, and traditional IT models are already feeling pressure from generative AI.

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