As artificial intelligence reshapes workforce globally and in India, Nikhar Arora, Director of BOTS.Ai, warns that automating entry-level tasks could limit on-the-job learning and leave companies struggling to find experienced mid-level professionals by 2030. Given below is the full interaction with Nikhar Arora, Builder and Director of BOTS.Ai by HR Anexi.
\n\nQ. Could we see massive job losses in India due to AI?
\n\nA. The real AI jobs risk in India is not people being fired today. It is that we stop producing experts tomorrow. Every senior professional in this country learnt their craft doing junior work: drafting, checking, reconciling, screening, first-level calls. That is exactly the work AI now does. Of the HR agents we have live at client sites, two do precisely the work that used to train junior HR executives: screening CVs and answering policy queries. Even the freshers who still get hired no longer do the work that made their seniors good. In FY26, India's tech sector grew revenue 6.1% while headcount grew only 2.3%. Companies are celebrating that efficiency. In eight to ten years, they will find nobody is ready to step up, because nobody did the apprenticeship. My prediction: by 2030, the scarcest people…
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