Microsoft India President Puneet Chandok has encouraged the youth to build on AI fluid, to call it “super important” and to emphasize such skills can not only be learned by theory or observation, but by hands-on use of aids, because the top Honcho has cited an airy analog of Fitness.
Chandok picks up a recent MIT Media Lab research that an alarm has raised an alarm about AI and the potential cognitive consequences and neural costs, and said that he believes that AI is stimulating instead of reducing cognitive skills by automating routine grind where users free themselves to concentrate on added value of the added value of the added value of the added value of the added value of the added value of.
In an interview with PTI, Chandok also drawn attention to new career opportunities that came up with AI, from agent managers to ask engineers, because he emphasized that task profiles indeed change and constant upskilling is because organizations adapt to evolving requirements.
He mentioned AI -fluency as “super important” and advised the youth to “learn to play with these tools”.
“This is not something that you can learn in a classroom, not in the theory. I always make jokes that you cannot get fit by seeing others going to the gym. You have to go to the gym yourself. The same with AI tools. You can’t learn to see others using, start using these tools,” he advised.
Chandok encouraged professionals to start building with AI tools, and emphasized that fluency in creating and managing digital agents in addition to resilience, adaptability, agility and growth mindset define future success in the workplace.
“I think those three things, ai -fluity, building AI and the ability to build and work with them and work with them and digital colleagues. And third, only the basic skills around resilience, agility, speed, growth mindset will be even more important,” he said.
Many new roles, which did not exist 12 months ago, are made because of AI, Chandok claimed.
“AI Orchestrator, AI Agent Manager, Agent Boss, Prompt Engineer … Er zijn veel nieuwe rollen die eraan komen en hoe zorgen we ervoor dat we die rollen en vacatures voor mensen in het hele land creëren. Ten tweede, de kleur van de banen zal veranderen … Ik denk dat de vaardigheden nodig zijn, als veel van het werk wordt weggenomen, hoe dan ook om te gaan met het werk om te worden gewerkt, wat te gebruiken voor hen, wat te gebruiken voor hen, wat te gebruiken For them, what to use for them, what to use for them, what to use for them, what to use for them, what to use for them.
Here constant upskilling would be crucial, he said.
“And that is why we are enthusiastic at Microsoft and throughout the country and about the customers about constant skills of people on AI. And then the third I will say, as organizations we are Super Agile. We are constantly re -adjusting based on the needs of our customers and the countries in which we work.
“Invest in areas where we see much more demand for both skills and people in business. So we will constantly adjust based on what our customers and the country we have in need of us,” he said.
India quickly emerged as a border market for AI acceptance, with worldwide technical Majors and domestic companies and startups that pop up investments and staff initiatives in the fastest growing large economy in the world, which bundled with 6.5% in 2024-25, and looks at a similar number of this financial year.
According to a recent report from BCG entitled ‘India’s AI Leap’, the country offers a unique launch platform for scalable, cost-efficient AI innovation, with more than 700 million internet users, high mobile penetration and robust digital public platforms such as UPI.
“In contrast to many previous technologies, AI is just as much a motor for innovation and growth as it is to improve performance and efficiency, so that completely new growth paths unlock and defend how companies have competed and economies of scale,” the BCG report had said how to increase AI sectors by more than 80 percentage in financial services. Cent and expanding the health care range through advanced diagnostics and external consultations.
The domestic AI market of India is expected to be more than triple to USD 17 billion in 2027, making it one of the fastest growing AI economies worldwide.
“This momentum is fed by rising Enterprise Tech Investments, a flourishing digital ecosystem and a robust talent base. India already has 600,000 AI professionals, with the number that is expected to double in 2027 to 1.25 million,” said BCG Report.
The country accounts for 16 percent of Global AI Talent Pool, the second only after the US, a reflection of both the demographic benefit and the voice -instructions, it added.
Published – August 25, 2025 9:06 AM IS
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