New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran on Monday said that progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not occur by "drift" and stressed the need for urgency, political will, and strong state capacity to harness its benefits.
Speaking at a session on 'Employability in the AI Age: Preparing for the Jobs of Tomorrow' at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Nageswaran underlined that India must act with clear intent to ensure AI strengthens, rather than disrupts, the country's growth and social fabric.
"India can become the first large society where human abundance and machine intelligence reinforce, and not undermine, each other," he said.
"This will not happen by drift; this will require urgency. It will req...