{"id":1024699,"date":"2026-07-30T07:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024699"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:27:26","slug":"paytm-founder-vijay-shekhar-sharma-calls-ai-a-once-in-a-generation-opportunity-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/paytm-founder-vijay-shekhar-sharma-calls-ai-a-once-in-a-generation-opportunity-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma calls AI a once-in-a-generation opportunity for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma has described artificial intelligence as a once-in-a-generation opportunity for India to create new jobs, build large new economic opportunities and emerge as a global technology leader. <\/p>\n<p>Sharing his views on X during a discussion around the impact of AI, Sharma said he felt bad when new job creation and new economy creation opportunities were viewed primarily as risks of the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma has described artificial intelligence as a once-in-a-generation opportunity for India to create new jobs, build large new economic opportunities and emerge as a global technology leader. Sharing his views on X during a discussion around the impact of AI, Sharma said he felt bad when new job creation and new economy creation opportunities were viewed primarily as risks of the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024718,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024699\/revisions\/1024718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}