About this episode
As the use of artificial intelligence surges across the globe, the technology is steadily gaining ground in India. Businesses, start-ups, and individuals are experimenting with new ways to improve efficiency and scale.
The Indian government is also rolling out national initiatives to fund research and train workers in the field of AI. That push was displayed at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, which was attended by heads of state, senior officials, and technology executives.
With nearly a billion internet users, India has also become a key focus for global tech companies to scale their AI businesses in one of the world’s fastest-growing digital markets. From farms to classrooms, AI is fast emerging as a tool for many Indians to boost efficiency, helping them cut time, rising costs, and labor constraints.
In New Delhi, students and educators are using AI technology to help them find solutions for their work. Anirudh Singh, a Master’s student in social work from Delhi University, has developed a virtual dashboard using AI as part of an internship project on mapping six states for weather predictions in 2026, including data on heat and rain risk.
“I think AI is just reducing the tedious work that students generally had to do. Like, looking at various studies and then coming for a single line or a single crux of that article, we have to read the whole article. AI is reducing the tedious work, and that's what Google did when it came, and AI just improved on it,” he said.
Educator Swetank Pandey teaches at a civil services coaching center, a sector known for its fierce competition and mammoth volume. Millions of young Indians compete for civil service jobs each year, and coaching institutes are forced to process vast numbers of tests, evaluations, and revisions.
Pandey said AI has made that workload easier to manage. Pandey said the technology helps him carry out the same task on a loop, allowing tens of thousands of answer sheets to be evaluated in as little as 20 to 25 minutes.
This article was provided by The Associated Press.
