Measure India’s AI jobs boom by job quality, not headcount

A new report shows AI adding more jobs than it cuts in India. But job quality, not headcount, is the real test of whether that boom holds.

More jobs than layoffs sounds like good news for India’s AI-era labour market — but the headline number hides a harder question: are these new roles building real skills, or just adding headcount? A four-point framework for judging the difference.