India, July 14 -- The conversation around Artificial Intelligence (AI) often defaults to a narrative of mass job loss, but emerging evidence suggests a more nuanced shift. McKinsey research (2023, 2025) estimates that around 30 per cent of current work activities in the US, primarily within white-collar sectors, could be automated by 2030. Analysis by Anthropic (2026) and Stanford University (Brynjolfsson, Chandar and Chen; 2025) found that while AI-exposed occupations, such as computer programmers and customer service representatives, have not yet experienced significant rises in unemployment, hiring for younger workers in these roles has slowed measurably. This signals an important shift: firms are not eliminating jobs at scale, but the...