Mumbai: The pressure cooker of management school interviews this year acquired a digital sheen. Instead of facing a panel of professors, candidates at a city B-school sat across a panel that comprised a teacher and an AI-assisted interviewer—an indigenous tool on a computer designed to probe, analyse, and even cross-check responses. "You mentioned your role in your family business," the AI prompted an interviewee. "Can you share examples of the changes you introduced?" The algorithm listened, parsed, and flagged discrepancies—picking up contradictions between the candidate's answers and statement of purpose. Welcome to the new age of Indian campuses, where AI is reshaping day-to-day activities. If AI-assisted interviews have already started refining student selection at NMIMS School of Business Management , a committee of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, decided to use AI to tailor sharper lessons. Dr Homi Bhabha State University has an entire digital ...