AI Workforce

Automation is reducing routine annotation and increasing demand for specialist evaluation, but India does not track whether workers are moving into higher-skill roles.

India has about 920,000 AI workers but faces steep shortages in GenAI, deployment engineering, governance, machine learning operations, AI security and NLP, a Quess Corp report found.

Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit, tech chiefs say artificial intelligence is forcing India to shift from outsourcing scale to intellectual ownership.