Manindra Agrawal, Director of IIT Kanpur, on AI, systematic flaws driving India’s coaching boom and the changing face of India’s research ecosystem. This session was moderated by Deputy Editor Amitabh Sinha.

Amitabh Sinha: Science and technology, especially some of the niche technologies, are expected to be the primary driver of the economy in the future. How prepared are we for this?

Technology is changing our lives dramatically. Technology that was not even known 10 years ago has seeped into our lives so much today that we don’t really pay attention to it. The current generation cannot imagine life without mobile phones but many of us know that we lived perfectly well without them.

When it comes to India, initially, we relied on technology being developed and produced outside. We just

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