Use Artificial Intelligence to augment human empathy, not replace it: Director, IIT Roorkee
Use Artificial Intelligence to augment human empathy, not replace it: Director, IIT Roorkee
Publish Date: 2026-02-02 09:17:00
Source Domain: www.thehindu.com
- Kamal Kishore Pant, Director of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, encouraged students at the 87th convocation of Annamalai University to embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an augmentative force while emphasizing the importance of maintaining human ethics and creative intuition.
- He highlighted AI’s transformative potential in various fields such as healthcare, precision agriculture, space science, and the humanities. He stressed that AI should augment human empathy, not replace it.
- Pant urged students to adopt the principles of Shareable Science, which calls for transparency, inclusivity, and democratization of knowledge to solve complex global problems.
- He underscored the necessity of resilient systems in health, energy, and transition, using the pandemic as an example to illustrate the importance of open science and global knowledge sharing.
- Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi presented degrees and awarded medals to students during the convocation ceremony.
- The event also saw participation from P. Sankar, Secretary to Government, Higher Education department, and R. Singaravel, Registrar (in-charge) of Annamalai University.
