India, Sept. 8 -- Learning, as we have known it for over two centuries, has been centred around knowing things. Gathering information was the fulcrum on which academic outcomes turned.

There was a reason for this: information richness was career insurance. Creativity and originality were always valuable, but information was the low-hanging fruit with a long shelf life.

Things changed when the internet reached our pockets; and now, with generative AI, popularised as LLMs, the information-intensive education system has been disrupted forever. The pace of this change is unprecedented. According to the Stanford AI Index Report 2025, AI systems are now matching or surpassing human performance on an increasing number of benchmark tasks, while...