ET Soonicorns Summit 2025: How AI will reshape Indian jobs
The numbers are strikingly symmetrical: India expects AI to contribute $500 billion to its GDP while managing a workforce of 500 million people. But this mathematical elegance masks a complex reality where the country’s AI transformation will create unexpected winners and losers, fundamentally reshaping not just what people do for work, but how they think about careers, skills, and economic opportunity.
The conventional wisdom about AI displacement could be wrong. While policymakers worry about blue-collar job losses, the real disruption is hitting knowledge workers hardest, creating a counterintuitive scenario where farmers and plumbers may emerge better positioned than coders and content creators.
