New Delhi, May 13 -- India could emerge as the global "skill capital" for artificial intelligence (AI) if the country significantly expands its AI-literate workforce by 2030, according to IBM India & South Asia Managing Director Sandip Patel.

Speaking to ANI on the sidelines of the launch of the joint IBM-IndiaAI report titled "From promise to power: How AI is redefining India's economic future", Patel said India already has a large AI-aware workforce base, but scaling it further would make the country a major global AI talent hub.

"Today the workforce, the addressable workforce, if you will, in India, give or take, is about 600 million employees, 600 million workers," Patel told ANI.

"What the report is stating is that about 30 per ce...