Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an overarching discipline that covers a broad range of domains and applications, and is expected to impact every fi eld in the coming future. The CBSE curriculum focuses on building AI readiness in young minds. Class 6 is being considered as the ideal level to introduce school students to AI as children are very inquisitive at this age. Students should opt for this curriculum to become future ready and become at par with their counterparts at a global level. AI is a continually advancing and expanding fi eld and AI readiness will lead to better opportunities and increased levels of understanding. It will help them visualise jobs of the future and prepare for them. Its multidisciplinary nature will help to make connections between all other subjects thereby adding value and giving a different perspective for all.

What children know about AI often comes from movies like ‘Terminator’ ‘Wall-E’ and ‘Big Hero 6’, in which they see robots thinking, feeling and learning autonomously. Now that AI has arrived, students need to explore the realities of both its capabilities and its limitations if they want to use it effectively in the workplace — and they’ll need a fi rm grasp of how it works if they’re going to steer its development in the future.

Providing students with the tools and access to AI education will create a generation who are not simply passive consumers of this technology but, rather, active creators and shapers of its future.

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