India, April 6 -- Recently, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, gave a completely counterintuitive narrative to the jobs-related debates about artificial intelligence (AI). "Loss of jobs is AI's most feared disruption, but history has shown that work does not disappear due to technology, only its nature changes." The Parliament's standing committee on IT took the same discussion forward in its recent report. It categorically stated, "The advent of AI is not leading to any job losses, instead it is being used as a tool for augmenting capability." Hence, it is an opportunity rather than a threat, one which needs strategic interventions.

According to the estimates made by the IT ministry, "The potential of AI in India fundamentally is...