IIT-Roorkee Director Urges Students Embrace AI

Kamal Kishore Pant, Director of IIT Roorkee, urged graduates at Annamalai University's 87th convocation on February 2, 2026, to embrace Artificial Intelligence as an augmentative force while preserving human ethics and creative intuition. He highlighted Open Science, Shareable Science and resilient systems, and encouraged AI use in healthcare, agriculture, space and telemedicine; Governor R.N. Ravi awarded degrees to 1,014 candidates and 44 medalists.