Should balance natural and artificial intelligence: Meghalaya Education Minister

Minister Rakam A Sangma has also emphasised the imperative for quality education in the state.

With the Meghalaya government’s continued efforts to promote academic excellence in the state and to sustain Shillong’s status as an educational hub in the region as well as the country, Education Minister Rakam A Sangma today emphasized the critical need for a balanced integration of natural and artificial intelligence.

Highlighting education’s vital role in shaping the future of Meghalaya, Minister Rakam A Sangma has emphasized the imperative for quality education in the state.

Minister Rakam A Sangma cautioned against the dominance of artificial intelligence, urging the state government to ensure the active development of natural intelligence.

He reiterated that while artificial intelligence is an offshoot of natural intelligence, it should complement rather than supplant human cognitive abilities.

“The state government will have to first understand that it is the age of technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the product of natural intelligence and it should not substitute natural intelligence, but substantiate it,'” said Minister Sangma.

Minister Sangma said that to regain the past glory of being known as “the educational hub of the NE” the state government is leaving no stone unturned and is coming up with different schemes as well as setting up various infrastructures with the State University called the Captain Williamson Sangma State University.
He said, “Educational institutions in Meghalaya have produced many IAS officers in the past. Many people from all across the Northeast and also abroad had come here to study. Even now, students from across the country and beyond come here to study, and we are proud of that.”

Important educational institutes like the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), National Institute of Fashion Technology Shillong (NIFT), North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), the English and Foreign Languages University, Shillong Campus, St. Edmund’s College, St. Anthony’s College, Shillong and several other Colleges and Technical Institutions have been established here. Thus Shillong has potentially great educational institutions that are gateways to success, the Education Minister said.

He said that even the schools are helping their students to become tech-savvy by introducing modern education in the classroom.

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