New Delhi, April 16 -- India has three good reasons to engage with one of the biggest open questions in economics today: the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on jobs.

First, the country has the world's largest youth population. Second, its growth model has been dominated by software services, and AI tools like Anthropic's Claude Opus are getting exceedingly good at writing code and finding bugs. But the third and possibly the most crucial point is this threat to entry-level positions comes amid an alarming oversupply of college graduates.

The wage bump that graduates enjoy over school-leavers is shrinking and AI could further narrow the gap. According to Azim Premji University's State of Working India 2026 report, the premium peak...