IIT Bombay alumnus argues peer networks hold value AI cannot replicate

Entrepreneur Shikhar Agrawal, an IIT Bombay alumnus, has reflected on what made his education truly valuable in an era of rapidly advancing AI. He contends that the institute's core strength was neither its degree nor its brand, but the ambitious and driven peer group he was surrounded by. Agrawal believes this kind of high-quality human network profoundly shaped his thinking and professional outlook. While AI has made knowledge more widely accessible than ever before, he argues that such transformative peer environments remain hard to recreate through technology.