India’s tech sector faces potential job losses but also chance to create 4 million new jobs in next 5 years.
- This comprehensive roadmap using a Work-Worker-Workforce lens shows how India can convert disruption into opportunity and become AI workforce capital of world.
3 Critical challenges related to AI faced by India
- Massive Job Displacement Risk: Over 60% of formal jobs in India are susceptible to automation by 2030.
- Gaps in Skills: Indian graduates often lag behind in specialized, research-intensive AI courses and keeping curricula aligned with newer concepts like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
- AI Talent Supply-Demand Gap: Supply for AI talent is currently only about 50% of demand.
Recommendations for India by NITI Aayog:
- India must establish an India AI Talent Mission to unify strategy and oversight, and execute the key recommendations that follow.
- Integrate AI across all levels, from schools to universities.
- Launch national AI literacy programs and provide flexible AI masters and doctoral programs for existing tech workforce.
- Offering attractive grants and salaries to retain top AI researchers, setting up autonomous AI CoEs, introducing a dedicated AI Talent Visa for fast-track residency, and offering startup relocation support.
- AI Talent Mission should work in collaboration with the IndiaAI Mission by
- Establishing an India Open-Source AI Commons: Create a central portal hosting high-quality datasets, models, and transparent benchmarks.
- Operationalizing a Federated National Compute and Innovation Grid
