Raluca Andreea Popa, PhD, PCC, Internationally Certified Leadership Coach: AI will sharpen the focus on distinctly human qualities—our capacity for nuance, ethical judgment, empathy, or creativity

🔶 Over the past two years, the impact of artificial intelligence has become unmistakably pervasive. In academic settings and across the broader landscape of learning, our work with students increasingly calls for a renewed emphasis on the value of learning itself—and on the discipline it requires, stated recently Raluca Andreea Popa, PhD, PCC, Internationally Certified Leadership Coach.

The statement has been uttered within the recently held event of Wipro’s India Romania AI Pre-Summit 2026, an affiliated event leading into the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi and organized together with Embassy of India in Romania.

Other insights of Raluca Andreea Popa, PhD, PCC, Internationally Certified Leadership Coach during the event:

🔶 The unprecedented accessibility of information at every level has fostered a perception among many students that immediate availability equates to sufficient understanding. As a result, the motivation to research deeply, question critically, and engage rigorously with material can diminish. One of our central challenges today is therefore to guide students back to the essence of studying—to help them rediscover that learning is not merely the acquisition of ready-made answers, but a transformative intellectual process.

🔶 Within the evolving AI–human ecosystem, another important challenge emerges. Students often perceive AI tools as partners, attributing to them a level of agency or complexity akin to that of a human being. While these tools are indeed powerful and sophisticated, our role as educators now includes helping students clearly distinguish between a tool and a person. We must teach them to leverage AI’s capabilities thoughtfully and effectively, while maintaining a strong commitment to personal, autonomous learning. AI should enhance, support, and enrich the learning journey—not substitute the cognitive effort and growth that define genuine education.

🔶 As for the question of replacement, it is unlikely that AI will supplant human roles outright. Rather, it will sharpen the focus on distinctly human qualities—our capacity for nuance, ethical judgment, empathy, creativity, and complex interpersonal engagement. In this way, AI does not diminish the human role; it challenges us to embody it more fully.

About the event

Wipro, together with the Embassy of India in Romania, recently held the India Romania AI Pre-Summit 2026, an affiliated event leading into the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. As AI reshapes industries and national priorities, this gathering brings together diplomatic leaders, business executives, and AI experts to discuss responsible, scalable, and trusted AI adoption.

Hosted at Wipro’s Bucharest office, the Pre-Summit provided a focused platform to explore policy frameworks, cross border collaboration, and emerging opportunities for India Romania cooperation, supported by Wipro’s intelligence led approach to innovation.

The event brought forward fresh perspectives on AI driven national and enterprise transformation, powered by Wipro Intelligence™, the company’s AI first architecture that helps organizations scale with confidence. Through high‑impact conversations and expert insights, participants engaged in the future of ethical AI ecosystems, innovation pathways, and talent development.

The gathering welcomed senior representatives from both diplomatic and corporate circles, including H.E. Dr. Manoj Kumar Mohapatra, Ambassador of India to Romania, and Ciprian Dan, Romania Country Head of Wipro.

A dedicated session on the impact of AI on academic learning and corporate operations and services was chaired by Raluca Andreea Popa, PhD, PCC, Internationally Certified Leadership Coach, together with Laura Băiașu, Client Delivery Excellence Head Europe BPS, Wipro

The conference also featured a special videocall session with Ivana Bartoletti, Wipro’s Global Privacy and AI Governance Officer, who—ahead of her participation in the India AI Impact Summit—shared comprehensive insights into AI’s societal impact, spanning social, corporate, and geopolitically sensitive dimensions.