AI poses a relatively lower risk to India’s GCC jobs, but no time for complacency: CEA
India's Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran stated that Indian Global Capability Centres (GCCs) are at lower risk of AI-driven job displacement due to their focus on high-end, complex work. However, he warned that centers relying on routine, repetitive tasks remain vulnerable to automation.
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It provides insight into the future of India's massive IT-enabled services sector in the face of rapid AI advancement.
India’s Global Capability Centres (GCCs) are not just low-cost support in a new form, but are areas where cutting edge work is taking place, Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) V. Anantha Nageswaran said on Thursday (July 9, 2026). As such, these GCC jobs are also at a relatively lower risk of being replaced by Artificial Intelligence (AI), he added.
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