Higher education institutions in India and abroad are steadily moving away from blanket restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) toward controlled classroom use, particularly in technical and management colleges. Institutions such as IISER Pune, Indian School of Business, IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore are reworking teaching methods and assessments to help students use AI without compromising independent thinking, subject knowledge, and academic rigour.

The shift is not about letting students outsource learning to AI but about teaching them to use it critically while retaining the ability to analyse problems, verify information, and make decisions independently.

At IISER Pune, AI use is permitted by default unless a teacher or PhD supervisor explicitly prohibits it in writing.…