India, May 12 -- "Artificial Intelligence, inequality and global conflict have created a situation where human capability is advancing faster than social understanding", said union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday while addressing the international colloquium at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). Calling AI an "inevitable and disruptive" technology, Pradhan said that social sciences must guide technological progress with ethics, human values and social wisdom to ensure that development remained inclusive and human-centric.

Addressing delegates from over 25 countries at the three-day colloquium organised for TISS' 90th-anniversary celebrations, Pradhan said that in a world facing wars, mistrust, mental health cha...