{"id":992573,"date":"2026-02-16T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992573"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:19:46","slug":"ai-in-india-will-drive-productivity-not-lead-to-mass-unemployment-says-boston-consulting-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/ai-in-india-will-drive-productivity-not-lead-to-mass-unemployment-says-boston-consulting-group\/","title":{"rendered":"AI in India will drive productivity, not lead to mass unemployment, says Boston Consulting Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI in India is set to drive productivity, quality, and role redesign in the near term rather than mass unemployment, but the country must pursue a &#8220;sovereign by design&#8221; approach, maintaining control over its data and capabilities while staying globally connected to ensure AI benefits everyone, according to BCGX. <\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s talent base is a major advantage, with 13 per cent of the global AI talent pool, as new centres of influence emerge beyond the AI superpowers US and China, top officials of BCGX, the AI, digital and innovation division of global consulting firm BCG, told PTI in an emailed interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI in India is set to drive productivity, quality, and role redesign in the near term rather than mass unemployment, but the country must pursue a &#8220;sovereign by design&#8221; approach, maintaining control over its data and capabilities while staying globally connected to ensure AI benefits everyone, according to BCGX. India\u2019s talent base is a major advantage, with 13 per cent of the global AI talent pool, as new centres of influence emerge beyond the AI superpowers US and China, top officials of BCGX, the AI, digital and innovation division of global consulting firm BCG, told PTI in an emailed interview.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992573","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=992573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}