Why Reading Matters in the AI Age: Amit Kapoor on Skills, Jobs & the Future

Описание: Amit Kapoor is the Honorary Chairman of the Institute for Competitiveness and a leading expert in strategy and economic competitiveness. Kapoor has significantly contributed to NITI Aayog and the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) through projects like the Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100 and India Innovation Index. He teaches a course on Understanding Modern India at Stanford University.

0:00 Precap

1:16 How To Address Skill Gap

11% of India is graduate or postgraduate – out of this, 50% are underemployed – skill mismatch exists
5:25 On the National credit framework

What it means is you can learn throughout your life and across the spectrum
7:45 On linking credit framework to Aadhaar – addresses apprehensions about data misuse

9:47 AI a double-edged sword

11:51 AI and jobs

Coding jobs will vanish, call center jobs are already vanishing, we will have to reskill ourselves – there are going to be higher order skills that will have to be imparted
13:00 AI and doctors

The reshaping of the profession –AI will be able to diagnose quickly. But the final diagnostic capability will be in human hands. AI will accentuate our learning and create opportunities of a magnitude we have not thought of.
14:20 Critical thinking and reading will be key

14:54 Mathematical skills critical

15:25 Transforming India’s workforce landscape

Kapoor Submitted this report to the Skill Development Ministry. The future is going to be for talent which is educated, trained.
17:25 How corporate sector can help skilling

20:47 India & AI

India, with its vast engineering talent, must embrace risk-taking to build innovative AI solutions on existing platforms, potentially leading the Global South
24:23 How Young India should prepare

Read across the board. The future lies with people who are able to converge two schools of thought.
23:24 Knowledge is the future. Remember the whole idea of Gyan mentioned in the Gita
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