🇮🇳 🧠 Goldman Sachs sees generative AI as a medium-term growth positive for India, mainly reshaping work rather than eliminating it. It estimates AI could handle up to 20% of non-agricultural tasks, putting 8–12% of jobs at substitution risk while complementing 42–48%. Healthcare, education, and media should see more augmentation, while postal services, telecoms, and parts of financial services face higher displacement risk. GenAI could also add about 0.4 percentage points to annual labor-productivity growth over the next decade.
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‼️ 🇨🇳 China likely entered 2H 2026 on the same uneven footing that defined the first half: AI-led manufacturing and exports remain strong, but they are failing to offset a deepening investment slump and weak consumer demand. July data may also show disruption from typhoons, flooding and shipping delays.
The core risk is clear: China’s AI buildout lifts industrial output and productivity—but its capital-intensive, highly automated nature offers limited support for jobs, household income or persistent deflationary pressures.