{"id":151274,"date":"2026-08-25T23:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/151274\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T23:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:43:18","slug":"how-managers-in-india-are-dealing-with-ai-overuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/151274\/","title":{"rendered":"How Managers in India Are Dealing with AI Overuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

India is a global leader in adopting artificial intelligence<\/a> at the workplace, but there\u2019s also an element of AI overuse and potentially AI overload that managers have to watch out for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAI tools<\/a> are very good if you\u2019re using them to accelerate your thinking, but at times people will outsource their thinking to these tools \u2014 that becomes a problem,\u201d said Vipul Taneja, co-founder and chief technology officer at Veersa Technologies, a software-services provider in Noida.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said the issue comes up more with younger, less experienced employees. While on the one hand, the leadership encourages all employees to use AI to be more productive<\/a>, they are still figuring out a balance between efficient use and overuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Managers need to be mindful of the potential for AI overload and related stress<\/a>, said Sheetal Sandhu, Gurgaon-based Group CHRO at ICRA Ltd., a credit ratings and analytics provider. \u201cIt\u2019s\u202ffor real. People are feeling burnt out,\u201d Sandhu said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At her firm, she said they are focusing on AI augmentation rather than AI substitution. \u201cWe need to maintain our core skills \u2014 our analysis skills, our decision-making skills, [and] empathy. All that can\u2019t be outsourced,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Building the AI Use Culture<\/p>\n

About 87% of enterprises<\/a> in India actively use AI solutions, and one recent study<\/a> showed that 4 out of 5 employees in India use AI multiple times a week. These are \u201cthe highest levels recorded across all surveyed markets,\u201d according to ADP, which conducted the study.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the largest adopters of AI in India are companies in the information technology, outsourcing, and related services industry. Leaders at tech companies and startups are using different techniques to create an AI use equilibrium among their teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy advice to managers would be to have a critical discussion, not just about the AI use policy but also about the AI use culture,\u201d said Tarunima Prabhakar, co-founder at Tattle Civic Technologies in Delhi, a startup that builds citizen-centric technology tools.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the most prevalent uses of AI is to write computer programs or code. However, the final output depends a lot on the context the AI tool is given.<\/p>\n

At some large companies, entry-level software engineers are relying heavily on AI without always understanding the concepts or giving the right inputs. \u201cIt\u2019s making life miserable for middle management because they are having to review really badly written code,\u201d Prabhakar said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That happened at her organization last year with two young women who had been hired to write code. These women, who were 19- and 21-years-old, were hired from a skilling program for rural youth where they were taught to use AI liberally.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They did so at Tattle, resulting in a poor-quality project. \u201cThey were using ChatGPT for very basic things,\u201d Prabhakar said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, when Tattle organized its biannual in-person meeting of its remote team, they discussed AI use, its environmental cost, and the potential of cognitive decline. That was illuminating for the over-users. \u201cAll of these things are not apparent to them,\u201d Prabhakar said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Based on the discussions, the company has now created an AI use policy, to outline what\u2019s OK and what\u2019s not OK to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Show, Don\u2019t Tell<\/p>\n

At Veersa, Taneja said they haven\u2019t created a list of do\u2019s and don\u2019ts around AI use, because they fear it may curb employees\u2019 creativity.<\/p>\n

Rather they are trying to show by example how people and AI can work together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In coding, Taneja sees human need in both providing the right inputs to the AI tool and in reviewing the final work. \u201cAI is as good as the context it gets,\u201d Taneja said. If it gets incomplete information, or something that isn\u2019t articulated well, it will hallucinate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To address this, the Veersa team has built in some tools within their technology systems to catch the obvious mistakes that a new software engineer relying solely on AI might make. In addition, they added steps for human-in-the-loop where a human is required to review the AI\u2019s work even during the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They created a prototype with these practices and presented it as a case study to the leaders of different projects, Taneja noted. He said other project managers came forward to adopt this approach. \u201cSlowly we are increasing the adoption,\u201d Taneja added.<\/p>\n

He emphasized the need for team members to verify the final result, and the need to understand why and what AI has produced. \u201cAt the end of the day, ownership remains yours,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u2018Evolving Situation\u2019<\/p>\n

At large technology companies, where management is pushing aggressively for AI use, team leaders say there are no standard parameters on where not to use AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat control you hand over and what you retain \u2014 that\u2019s a balance we\u2019re all trying to learn,\u201d said Anubhuti Varshney, a Bengaluru-based senior information technology professional at a major U.S. technology corporation.<\/p>\n

When team members leave everything to AI, more than they should, she uses a direct approach to discuss the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She related one instance with an intern who was given a project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThings that we would have thought she would do in a month, she did in a week. But then it was all wrong,\u201d Varshney said. They realized that the intern had used AI to do everything, from design to coding to data analysis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Varshney asked the intern to think out her approach in advance, as the end result didn\u2019t make sense. She said there is a scope for AI overload to cause stress, as organizations use AI to push for faster execution.\u202f<\/p>\n

Management now has \u201ca new way to ask you to crunch your timelines,\u201d Varshney said, adding that she too has been asked to move up a deadline for a project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an evolving situation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Shefali Anand is a New Delhi-based journalist and a former correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India is a global leader in adopting artificial intelligence at the workplace, but there\u2019s also an element of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,22737,25,2154,849,22736,22735,1415],"class_list":["post-151274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-ai-hi","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-feature","tag-future-of-work","tag-hr-daily","tag-hr-professionals","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}