New Delhi: AI in India will drive productivity, quality, and role redesign in the near term rather than mass unemployment, but the country must pursue a “sovereign by design” approach, maintaining control over its data and capabilities while staying globally integrated to ensure AI benefits everyone, according to BCGX.
India’s talent base is a real advantage, with 13 per cent of the global AI talent pool as new centres of influence emerge beyond AI superpowers US and China, top officials of BCGX, the AI, digital, and innovation division of global consulting firm BCG, told PTI in an emailed interview.
“The Asia-Pacific region is often described as being ahead of the curve in AI adoption, for example, a recent BCG report found that 92 per cent of employees in India use AI at least several times a week,” Sylvain Duranto, Global Leader BCGX, said, referring to how AI has gained traction in India.
By strengthening the pillars of the IndiaAI Mission and advancing Sovereign AI strategies, India can secure technological independence while setting global benchmarks for ethical and inclusive innovation. The nation’s success will depend on balancing innovation with accountability to create an AI future rooted in trust, transparency, and national purpose.
India’s sheer scale, its population, linguistic diversity, and governance complexity, demands a fundamentally different AI approach from that of Western tech giants. Global large language models may work well for English-dominant contexts, but India’s reality is multilingual, multi-script, culturally layered, and deeply local.
