India, Aug. 30 -- Any education in the future has to aim for true cognitive empathy. With AI, the age of mere synthesis is coming to an end. In this, India has key tools.

The fundamental crisis of education in the age of generative artificial intelligence is not one of plagiarism but of cognition. As large language models flood the educational ecosystem with frictionless, synthetically generated text, the struggle has shifted from the accumulation of knowledge to the preservation of intellectual labour itself. In the contemporary university seminar room, where students can outsource the synthesis of complex political philosophy or civilizational history to a machine in seconds, the traditional essay or summary is functionally dead.

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