outsourcing industry,

India’s outsourcing industry threatened by AI boom

AI is weakening the link between export growth and hiring in India’s outsourcing industry, with entry level BPO jobs under pressure. #AI #BPO Read more »
malnutrition

AI can sharpen India’s fight against malnutrition

AI can identify nutrition risks sooner, but data errors and weak frontline services could blunt its value. #malnutrition Read more »
AI in banking

AI in banking carries huge financial stability risks

AI in banking can improve lending and fraud detection, but correlated trading and cloud dependence could turn small failures into financial shocks. #finance #AI Read more »
human knowledge AI regulation

AI needs a knowledge dividend for the human work it uses

AI rules cover safety and copyright, but not the financing of the knowledge system that trains commercial models. Read more »
AI oligarchy

AI oligarchy could break democracy’s old bargain

AI oligarchy and the use of humanoid robots could weaken the bargain behind public education, welfare states and labour rights. #oligarchy #AI Read more »
AI divide

AI divide threatens India’s higher education goals

AI divide in higher education will widen old gaps unless state universities get shared compute, faculty support and data rules. #AI #highereducation Read more »
workforce skilling

India’s AI challenge is a workforce skilling challenge

India’s AI dividend will depend on whether its workforce skilling can be fast enough. #AI #skillling Read more »
AI democratisation and GDP growth

India faces AI democratisation challenge as economic growth slows

India’s slowing growth has revived a core policy question: can AI democratisation raise productivity across agriculture, manufacturing, and services. Read more »
Equitable AI

Equitable AI needs democratic governance, not declarations

Pledges at the New Delhi summit sound reassuring, but equitable AI will fail without democratic oversight, accountability, and contestable public systems. #AISummit #AI Read more »
AI and local journalism

How AI could hurt — and help — local journalism

Carefully deployed, AI may also help fill civic information gaps and support public-interest reporting. Read more »