Impact of AI on Jobs, Education and the Arts in India

Image India’s first conversational digital hologram of M.F. Husain at the Museum of Art & Photography.

Capria India, Accel India, and Spring Marketing Capital in collaboration with the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru invites you to a conversation on the impact of AI across industries.

While we all know the pace of chatbot adoption is staggering—zero to a billion monthlies in ~3 years—we also see that the true impact of AI productivity gains is yet to be felt in most companies. Anecdotally, entry-level jobs are drying up, but the data are inconclusive as to AI causality. And in creative domains, Sora 2 user-generated videos like “Mario’s Schizophrenia” are showing that Silicon Valley’s creations will continue consuming and creating derivatives of copyrighted materials, buoyed by the June fair-use judgments granted to Anthropic and Meta.

The AI sea-change will impact everyone, but especially those earlier in their careers. Computer Science enrollments are anecdotally down, but trends are still unclear. A September 2025 survey of teenagers revealed that a majority feel that AI has negatively impacted their career outlook. However, the same survey indicated that creative fields remain popular career choices, with 27% of respondents expressing interest in arts and music, and 25% in content creation and digital media.

Part of the mission of MAP is to educate and inspire the next generation through traditional and multimedia art experiences. We feel AI-generated and AI-assisted art represents as much of an opportunity as a threat to the younger generation. But we’re in early innings, and we also know many vocal creative professionals and artists see AI as an existential threat.

We are convening top thinkers in Venture Capital in Bangalore to discuss how these technologies will unfold in India, to ideate on policy recommendations we should all advocate for, and to identify promising startups that could play a positive role in enabling a future where AI and human creativity coexist and support one another. And of course, we look for ideas on how MAP can further its mission more cost-effectively and creatively via AI.

To kick off this informal discussion, we will have a short fireside chat about AI hosted by MAP Founder, Abhishek Poddar, with:
– Will Poole of Capria, representing impact on creative professionals
– Subrata Mitra of Accel, representing impact on Indian education
– Raja Ganapathy of Spring representing impact on Indian consumers

The conversation will be followed by drinks and appetisers and a guided walk of the museum.