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Noted academic-turned-entrepreneur Vijay Chandru has urged Kerala to hole for the accelerating convergence of artificial quality (AI) and beingness sciences.
The Chairperson of the Board of Governors of Digital University Kerala (DUK) besides said universities indispensable expect technological disruption alternatively of simply reacting to emergent scenarios.
Speaking astatine a consultative treatment connected ’Information Technology – Digital gyration successful the epoch of AI’ organised arsenic portion of the ’Vision 2031 International Conference connected Development and Democracy’ present connected Monday, Prof. Chandru pointed retired the outgo of sequencing DNA has dropped dramatically implicit 25 years. This has created unprecedented opportunities successful preventive healthcare and familial diagnostics.
He besides stressed connected AI-driven clime forecasting systems that are susceptible of providing vigor accent predictions astatine granular administrative levels and suggested the State could integrate specified systems into its catastrophe preparedness planning.
’Different from IT’
DUK Vice-Chancellor Saji Gopinath observed that Kerala’s IT occurrence exemplary cannot simply beryllium replicated for the AI era. AI requires redesigning workflows and integrating cognition with skills, helium pointed out.
Dr. Gopinath besides highlighted a structural spread successful the country’s IT acquisition ecosystem. While cognition is delivered successful colleges, skills are acquired successful backstage grooming centres. Students often prioritise tool-based skills that guarantee contiguous employment, but specified a exemplary is inadequate for deep-tech and AI-driven innovation.
He projected integrating skills and cognition wrong assemblage curricula done work-integrated learning. Drawing parallels with aesculapian education, wherever students postgraduate industry-ready owed to simultaneous infirmary training, helium called for embedding manufacture ecosystems wrong campuses.
’AI for nationalist good’
Deepak Padmanabhan, Associate Professor of AI astatine Queen’s University, Belfast, felt the State indispensable deploy AI for nationalist bully portion guarding against opaque and exploitative systems.
Referring to lessons from the 2018 floods, helium projected integrating AI-driven utmost upwind alerts into mobile exigency broadcast systems to complement SMS alerts. Such infrastructure could besides assistance negociate human-animal struggle incidents done accelerated nationalist communication.
He besides warned that gig system platforms trust connected opaque AI algorithms and piece-rate wage models that make income uncertainty. Kerala could pioneer a worker-friendly integer level by offering time-based wages and predictable enactment allocation utilizing transparent AI systems, helium suggested.
Dr. Padmanabhan called for an AI Bill of Rights with absorption connected existent accountability alternatively than procedural compliance. Such regularisation should make barriers for unaccountable AI, portion enabling socially beneficial innovation.
Kerala State Planning Board subordinate V. Namasivayam, Information Technology Department Special Secretary Sreeram Sambasiva Rao, Kerala Startup Mission main enforcement (CEO) serviceman Anoop Ambika, IIT Tirupati Associate Professor Roshan K. Srivastav, University of the Basque Country Professor Eneko Agirre, Genrobotics Innovations co-founder and CEO Vimal Govind M.K. and Open Financial Technologies co-founder and main operating serviceman Mabel Chacko besides spoke. (EOM)
