India Is Producing a Generation of AI Illiterates — And Schools Are Doing Nothing About It
There is a war happening quietly inside every Indian classroom, and almost nobody is talking about it. It isn't fought with weapons. It's fought with silence — the silence of a curriculum that still treats Artificial Intelligence as a "future topic," while an entire generation of children is already living inside an AI-powered world without a single lesson on how to survive it. Ask any parent what their child learned about AI in school this year. Most will shrug. Some will mention a "computer class." A few might mention ChatGPT — usually because their child got caught using it, not because a teacher taught them how to use it responsibly. That gap, between what the world now demands and what our classrooms are still delivering, is not a minor delay. It is the difference between a generation that commands AI and a generation that gets replaced by it. The Government Knows. The Classroom Doesn't. To be fair, change is finally arriving — on paper. In late 2...