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AI in education needs greater inclusion of women: Unesco

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Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for education in India needs equipping women for technology in education, Unesco's State of Education in India 2022 report makes clear. The report, focusing on artificial intelligence in education, states 85% of adolescent girls in the country don't have a laptop at home, and 83% got less than an hour at their school computer labs per week. Despite this, the country was ranked at the top in terms of talent concentration and relative AI skill penetration--leading the world in terms of relative skill penetration by gender, with women exhibiting a higher rate than men in the country--in the Stanford University's Institute for Human-centred Artificial Intelligence's 2022 Artificial Intelligence Index. That said, with women accounting for 22% of India's AI talent pool and a third of AI-related scientific publications, the lack of access to technology in early education for women could be leading to lost potential, experts say. The AI market in India was valued at $6.4 billion in August 2020, and is expected to reach close to $8 billion by 2025.