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India’s First AI Appreciation Day Spotlights Sector-Wide AI Integration and Job Boom

This milestone event demonstrated deepening AI applications across sectors alongside renewed calls for ethical governance.

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Overview

  • Schools are deploying generative AI as a teaching collaborator while farms and disaster response teams are using AI-enabled drones to make autonomous decisions.
  • Naukri.com reports a 38% year-on-year rise in AI/ML job postings in Q1 FY26 with over 35,000 roles and a 53% salary premium for AI-skilled candidates.
  • About 86% of Indian jobseekers view AI as an ally, a sentiment that stands in contrast to global concerns over displacement.
  • According to Lenovo’s CIO Playbook 2025, 63% of enterprises favour hybrid or on-premises setups for AI workloads to balance latency, cost and privacy.
  • Executives from NetApp, byteXL and other firms urged the swift development of ethical, inclusive frameworks to guide AI’s sustained, equitable growth.