MOU with NCISM on AI in ASUS Education

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:04:31 +0530

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.

Education | Swaroop Joshi

MOU with NCISM on AI in ASUS Education