mussoorie senior educationists including principals of several schools in the doon valley and mussoorie expressed their views on how artificial intelligence was having an impact on education at a conclave organised at hotel savoy in mussoorie on tuesday the highlight of the event organised by patialabased thapar institute of engineering and technology tiet was a session with celebrated author ruskin bond who was guest of honour the chief guest was dr geeta khanna chairperson of the uttarakhand child rights protection commissionpanelists at a panel discussion moderated by tiet director padmakumar nair discussed pros and cons of artificial intelligence tools such as chatgpt the panelists included prem kashyap president of principal progressive schools association uttarakhand anita puri mohindra scientist and additional director institute of technology management mussoorie and kusum deep joint faculty mehta family school of data science and artificial intelligence iit roorkeeexpressing her views kusum deep said in a few years time chatgpt will be used by almost everyone on earth however it is important to balance the use of such artificial intelligence tools so that human creativity is not impactedspeaking as the guest of honour at the conclave bond shared childhood memories spoke about his passion for writing while also giving a mantra to budding writersto become a good writer one must read lots of books and also develop a habit of writing everyday maybe for an hour or more the veteran author advisedhe also said that he would be releasing three new titles on the occasion of his 89th birthday on may 19