MOU with NCISM on AI in ASUS Education
(L to R) From BITS Pilani: Mr Mohanty, Prof Swaroop, Prof Meenal, Prof Kundu. From NCISM: Dr Deopujari, Dr Prasad, Dr JagannathanNCISM is a statutory body responsible for the education of the Indian System of Medicine disciplines (namely, Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, and Sowa-Rigpa, abbreviated ASUS). With the recent and ongoing developments in AI, they are interested in incorporating AI education in their institutes. Indeed, ASUS education has some unique challenges:
- since India is the only country in the world where ASUS education exists in a well-structured manner, unlike other fields, there are no contemporary models for comparison in the rest of the world, and
- it is equally important to preserve the philosophical and ethical underpinnings of this field in the era of fast-changing technologies.
BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa campus signed an MOU with NCISM on March 19, 2024. I am the principal investigator on this project.
The broader goals are:
- Assessing the AI-preparedness of the current ASUS faculty and students,
- Assessing the sector-specific needs for the creation of AI tools, and
- Developing appropriate course content and pedagogies and assessing its impacts on student learning.
