India isn’t the West: Shark Anupam Mittal warns against blind reliance on AI in a billion-plus nation
Viral post questions technology priorities
Mittal, who sent LinkedIn to LinkedIn, shared an image of an elderly woman with a sharp word: “I saw this woman the other day and maybe he thought he should learn Python.
Mittal’s interpretation quickly drew attention to social media. Although tons of cynical, the message was directly: India’s approach to artificial intelligence and automation risks leave a large part of the labor force.
“Parrot of the West without understanding our own reality”
Mittal criticized the tendency to copy global AI policies from India’s unique demographic and economic facts. “When I said that India needs work with deep technology, someone sends me a technical examination for AI skill. Basically, the West said without understanding our own reality.”
Microsoft, Meta and Google’s 40-50% of the study would soon be AI-guided by estimating that AI has transformed the global labor force. “Yes that’s true!” He wrote. “But these are economies with lower population, high official employment and deep reproduction budgets.”
India’s skill gap
Mittal, who shared information from his professional experience in the United States, underlined the difference in the skill approach. “When I work in the USA, a new technology or software is put on the market, we have risen in real time – not just like individuals, but also in the whole organization. The real skill infrastructure seems like this.” On the other hand, he said that India lacks such systems. “Most self -employed. India is not there yet.”
Concert economy continues to be a life line
Mittal emphasized the role of the concert economy in supporting employment. “Millions of employment provided. This does not mean that in a country that holds ~ 20% of the world’s population!”
He warned him against monitoring as a solution to capture deep technology. “When we start to start deep technology as the only solution to all our problems, we endanger the livelihoods of one billion plus nation.”
Two Indias, a policy struggle
Mittal said that India’s population should appeal to both high qualified and low qualified parts. “Yes, we have extremely talented and super-talented people from India to build the big future technology-but we also have a large low-skilled population that should be taken.”
He concluded by inviting his task to reflect and discuss. “India needs to deal with both problems at the same time, no? What are you taking?”
