{"id":997558,"date":"2026-03-11T09:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997558"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:16:23","slug":"tamil-nadu-must-embrace-ai-in-5-7-years-to-capitalise-on-population-dividend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/11\/tamil-nadu-must-embrace-ai-in-5-7-years-to-capitalise-on-population-dividend\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tamil Nadu must embrace AI in 5-7 years to capitalise on population dividend\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has a five- to seven-year window to prepare its workforce for the artificial intelligence (AI) era, failing which the state risks losing a major economic opportunity, the State Planning Commission (SPC) has stated. <\/p>\n<p>The SPC\u2019s report titled, \u2018Tamil Nadu: AI &amp; Future Workforce\u2013Preparing Every Level of the Workforce for the Age of Artificial Intelligence\u2019 cautions that with the state\u2019s total fertility rate already at 1.3 and 14% of the population above 60, the current demographic advantage will begin to shrink soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has a five- to seven-year window to prepare its workforce for the artificial intelligence (AI) era, failing which the state risks losing a major economic opportunity, the State Planning Commission (SPC) has stated. The SPC\u2019s report titled, \u2018Tamil Nadu: AI &amp; Future Workforce\u2013Preparing Every Level of the Workforce for the Age of Artificial Intelligence\u2019 cautions that with the state\u2019s total fertility rate already at 1.3 and 14% of the population above 60, the current demographic advantage will begin to shrink soon.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997558","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=997558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}