{"id":185701,"date":"2025-12-11T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/185701\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:05:08","slug":"7-ways-ai-can-damage-indian-economy-if-it-clings-to-cheap-manual-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/185701\/","title":{"rendered":"7 ways AI can damage Indian economy if it clings to cheap manual labour?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI and robots will automate many routine, low-skill jobs (assembly lines, warehousing, call centres). If India delays re-skilling and keeps expanding manual-labour sectors, the eventual shock when automation arrives will be sharper: millions unemployed, with insufficient alternative employment. Higher long-term unemployment means greater welfare spending, shrinking tax receipts and strained state finances, a fiscal stress that can cascade into social instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI and robots will automate many routine, low-skill jobs (assembly lines, warehousing, call centres). 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