India is one of the five largest markets for Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude, but the company’s latest Economic Index shows that how countries use AI still closely follows income and education levels.
Companies are leaning on AI as a convenient explanation for layoffs, even as weaker demand, past overhiring and cyclical slowdowns account for most job losses, shows Oxford Economics research
India may avoid the worst of AI-driven white-collar displacement, but only if it builds skills fast enough, IT secretary S. Krishnan says
AI scaled fast in 2025 but not in the ways regulators or institutions expected, with failures across chatbots, newsrooms, courts, policing and deepfake-driven fraud.
Automation advances unevenly across tasks and roles. Understanding the friction factors that slow adoption can help leaders navigate workforce transformation strategically.
