India’s AI moment needs more than momentum

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By Anupam Kumar Jha, Head of Solutions Engineering – India, Datadog.

Building trust at scale requires achieving transparency on a large scale. That was the founding decision behind UPI: every transaction visible, traceable, and accountable in real time. Not because regulators demanded it, but because the architects understood that confidence cannot be declared — it has to be demonstrated, one transaction at a time. The result is a payments infrastructure processing over 20 billion transactions a month, built entirely on earned trust.

The question facing India’s enterprise leaders today is whether we will apply the same discipline to AI.

56% of Indian organisations have already embedded AI into core business processes, yet only 25% believe their workforce is adequately prepared to use it, a gap that has widened by 12% in a single year. Meanwhile, 81% of Indian business leaders are concerned that AI advancement is already outpacing their workforce...

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