India, Oct. 8 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
NITI Aayog today released a pioneering study, AI for Inclusive Societal Development, a first-of-its-kind effort to systematically explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and frontier technologies can be harnessed to transform the lives and livelihoods of India's 490 million informal workers - the backbone of the nation's economy.
While global discourse on AI has largely centered around white-collar jobs and the formal economy, this landmark study, developed in partnership with Deloitte, shifts the spotlight to the informal sector, which contributes nearly half of India's GDP yet remains excluded from formal systems of protection, opportunity, and productivity.
The report emp...