Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar gave his thoughts on how AI will affect the labour sector. When asked if he thought AI would lead to widespread unemployment, Chandrasekhar responded with an emphatic "no."

He dismissed as "nonsense, bakwas" claims that artificial intelligence would eliminate jobs in India.

The minister stated that the government was working on a data sets initiative to make government-anonymized data available to Indian artificial intelligence academics and companies. He noted that AI today is task-focused and fundamentally improves job efficiency by emulating human behaviours.

The minister spoke to the media following the opening of fully automated state-of-the-art electromagnetic interference and compatibility facilities at the Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER) in Chennai.

Two consultations were held, and the government planned to announce the whole architecture of the data sets scheme very shortly.

Regarding the Indian semiconductor business, he stated that the government is working to create a semiconductor ecosystem that will be operational in three to five years.

Furthermore, the minister elaborated, saying that there were none 18 months ago, but now there are about 30 startups involved in semiconductor design. He said India will soon have a semiconductor research hub and be a global semiconductor value chain player.