Mumbai : India’s ambitions in artificial intelligence will not be realised merely by producing elite AI engineers or introducing AI into existing courses. Its long-term edge, academic leaders argue, lies in building both deep AI expertise and broad AI literacy across disciplines.A media roundtable hosted by the Mehta Family Foundation on Thursday brought together the heads of Mehta Family Schools of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at IIT Guwahati, IIT Roorkee and IIT Palakkad, reports Hemali Chhapia .Panellists presented two complementary AI pathways: AI for X (any given discipline), where AI strengthens existing disciplines, and X for AI, where domain experts develop the capability to build and advance AI systems within their own fields.Rahul Mehta, head of the Foundation and one of the largest donors to the IITs, said India’s competitive lead will depend more on the scale and quality of its intellectual talent. Prof Ratnajit Bhattacharjee of IIT Guwahati said curricula must preserve conceptual depth of disciplines.
