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AI will reshape jobs, but India’s bigger challenge is preparing workers, boardrooms and classrooms

AI will reshape jobs, but India’s bigger challenge is preparing workers, boardrooms and classrooms

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The debate around artificial intelligence has largely been framed around a single question: Will it take away jobs? But at The Hindu Huddle’s session on “I, Robot: How AI is reshaping the future of work”, industry veterans argued that India risks missing a far more important conversation — how to redesign education, skilling, research, and businesses for an AI-led future. Also Read: The Hindu Huddle 2026 Day 2 Updates The panel, moderated by Businessline editor Raghuvir Srinivasan, brought together former Cognizant CEO Lakshmi Narayanan, former NASSCOM president and NITI Aayog distinguished fellow Debjani Ghosh, and former Saint-Gobain India chairman B. Santhanam. For Ms. Ghosh, the current narrative around AI-driven job losses is often misplaced. “A lot of the displacements till now were due to overhiring during the pandemic. So it was correction that was happening,” she said, pushing back against the view that AI is already eliminating large numbers of jobs. That does not mean the risks are insignificant. As AI systems become capable of performing routine and repetitive tasks, entry-level jobs are likely to …

Rescripting boardrooms: Women in corporate governance

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In the last decade, how best women can be engaged in governance has become the most debated issue. Much of this refocusing can be attributed back to a pathbreaking rule that the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) introduced in the year 2013, wherein it stated that every listed company would have to have a minimum of one woman director on its board. Women significantly lacked representation in these positions before the enforcement of the rule. Hence a step in the right direction toward egalitarianism within the corporate world, simply for the fact that it ensured women’s views and talents were not wasted. Corporate women (Images: Shutterstock) Research has shown that participation of women in governance deliberations results in real gains for democracy, entailing the emboldening of greater responsiveness to citizen needs, increased ability to work across party and ethnic lines, and securing a more sustainable future. Firms with women on their boards of directors tend to outperform those without if identifiable measures are used. They appeared to comply with gender quotas by appointing …