New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- At theIndia AI Impact Summit 2026, conversations around AI impact extended beyond enterprise infrastructure and into a less discussed layer: frontline hiring.

The interaction with Krishna Khandelwal, Founder & Co-founder, Hunar.AI highlighteda shift in how AI is being positioned in workforce transformation: not as automation, but as access infrastructure.

The discussion centred on attrition, informal hiring, bias, and the role conversational AI could play in formalising India's blue- and grey-collar workforce.

A key theme emerging from the interaction is that fragmentation in frontline hiring is less about lack of talent and more about broken discovery.

Traditional hiring processes, resumes, job portals and inter...