IISc Professor Urges Human Values in AI Education
Prathosh AP, a professor at IISc Bengaluru, says technology education should go beyond technical skills and job preparation. He argues that logical reasoning, philosophical inquiry and an understanding of human values should also be part of it. His remarks on IIT students studying shastras in AI are now going viral online.
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Context: IISc Bengaluru is the Indian Institute of Science, a leading research institute. Shastras are classical Indian texts on knowledge and reasoning, and the debate over teaching them alongside engineering has been a recurring topic in Indian education.
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