New Delhi, July 3 -- "If you could invent one AI superpower, what would it be?" Abhinav Trivedi, Deputy Editor at Mint and Hindustan Times, asked students at Christ University in Bengaluru. Their answers came fast. One wanted automated translation in any language. Another wanted the ability to scan every database in the world. A third asked for something stranger: the power to read minds. "Knowing people," she said, "is one of the hardest things there is."

Two faculty members sat in on the session: Dr Sangeetha R from the School of Business and Management and Dr Bijeesh T V from the Department of AI and Data Science Engineering, an AI educator and practitioner for over a decade.

With the icebreaker over, Trivedi steered the discussion t...