With technology fully embedded in our modern lives and Artificial Intelligence (AI) sparking both fear and promise, experts sought to explain why it is important to stay abreast of developments today.
They spoke of how various AI tools could be put to beneficial use for complementing the work we do, instead of negating them, especially in the education sector, where faculty -student ratio stood at 1:26 (1:10 is the desirable ratio) and qualified teachers are few.
It was emphasised that for India to emerge as a global innovation hub, higher education institutions needed to create the right ecosystem and go with the flow of AI. While a national AI policy is still in drafting stage, the speakers said, every institution should have its own AI guidelines as a safeguard.
