New Delhi, Oct. 11 -- Kerala, Haryana, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu have the highest shares of workers in occupations where artificial intelligence (AI) is more likely to improve productivity than replace human labour, while Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh face a double disadvantage of lower AI exposure and fewer opportunities to benefit from the technology, according to a new study by the Great Lakes Institute of Management.

The October 2026 working paper, AI, Automation and India's Workforce: Who Gains, Who's Exposed, and How Policy Can Shape the Future, examines employment patterns across Indian states using labour force data from 2012 and 2025. It distinguishes between jobs where AI can complement human skills, occup...