India's AI Moment: Summit Debates Growth, Ethics, and Jobs
India's AI Moment: Summit Debates Growth, Ethics, and Jobs
At BT AI Summit 2025, leaders explore India's AI moment—from ethical AI and upskilling to turning pilots into core strategy and a nationwide playbook.
At the Business Today AI Summit 2025, the event centers on India’s AI Moment: From Adoption to Disruption, with leaders and innovators mapping how Indian enterprises can scale AI from pilots to core strategy. The gathering underscores a national push to build an inclusive, innovation-led AI ecosystem that can power India’s leadership in the AI revolution.
In a featured session titled Beyond The Illusion, Raul John Aju, a young AI prodigy, joined Sakshi Batra in a conversation that highlighted how breakthroughs in artificial intelligence are redefining creativity, problem-solving, and human potential while emphasizing ethical AI and responsible deployment.
Industry chiefs laid out a roadmap for a software-enabled future where technology and talent fuse to drive growth. The summit aims to reveal a practical playbook for turning India’s AI momentum into tangible progress, with a focus on scalable AI adoption across enterprises and sectors.
Naveen Kamat, head of AI at L&T, spoke about diversification and portfolio realignment as essential tactics in an evolving AI landscape. He said the organization has continually looked at how to diversify its portfolio and rejig its strategy to stay ahead in AI.
KPMG’s S Sathish offered a measured view on jobs, noting that AI will change jobs rather than eliminate them, while acknowledging uncertainty among junior and mid-level workers about their futures and the need for reskilling.
Ex-CEA Arvind Subramanian cautioned that AI and services alone will not deliver inclusive growth for India, arguing for deeper structural policies to ensure growth translates into broad-based prosperity.
Overall, the summit presents a cohesive narrative: India is positioning itself to lead in AI through ethical, human-centered innovation, resilient job pipelines, and a concrete national playbook that blends technology with sound policy and talent development.
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