Artificial intelligence is no longer an option or privilege. It’s here to stay, even in schools.

OpenAI and India’s education ministry have partnered to distribute free ChatGPT licences to government schools, and AI is being introduced into CBSE and ICSE’s curricula.

The Ken conducted a survey in August to find out what our readers thought about language models becoming a constant presence in India’s education facilities. These were some of the questions in the survey:

• What do you think OpenAI’s goal is in Indian schools?
• Who should be responsible if data is misused?
• What data do you think OpenAI is most interested in?

On the ground, most schools haven’t figured out how to bring AI into the classroom, so they’re using it for everything except teaching, such as administration tasks and applicant interviews. That hardly lines up with the goal to make India’s students AI-literate.

The Ken reporter Atul Krishna unpacks the implications of ChatGPT’s proliferation in India’s education sector in the latest edition of Make India Competitive Again, as read by Snigdha Sharma.

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