Interactions of Artificial Intelligence with India’s labour market

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping production systems, tasks, and skill requirements, but its effects on employment are neither uniform nor technologically predetermined. In India, where services-led growth coexists with weak employment elasticity and a large informal workforce, labour-market outcomes from AI depend critically on policy choices and institutional design.

This paper examines AI–labour interactions in India through a structural and a task-based lens.