India, June 3 -- AI is not coming to steal marketing and sales jobs; it is coming to make the best people in these fields dramatically more valuable. The real threat is not AI itself, but the refusal to modernise how value is created. Every major technological shift has initially looked like a jobs crisis before eventually becoming a jobs engine. Automation removes low-value bottlenecks, productivity rises, new problems emerge, and entirely new categories of work appear. AI is following that same economic logic. The hiring data already points in this direction. In India's tech sector, companies have cut back in the overbuilt middle while continuing to expand AI-smart entry-level hiring. Entry-level hiring has climbed 168% between 2023 and 2...