AI & Sustainable Computing

UNIT-I

AI & Society: Relation of AI with Knowledge, Culture and Communication. Implications of AI: Cultural, Social, Cognitive, Economic, Ethical and Philosophical. Societal and cultural impacts of AI, New Media Technologies: Design, Use, Management, Policy of Information and Communication. Impact of AI: Impact of AI on governance, Impact of AI on information security, Impact of AI in the corporate sector and community welfare. AI in information technologies, humanities, social sciences, arts, and sciences.

UNIT-II

Potential and Transformative Impacts: Critical consequences of AI, Latest technological innovations. Applications of emerging technologies in day-to-day life. Societal dimension of research: benefits, impacts, and implications on society. AI and research ethics. Forces influencing AI: trust, biases, privacy, reliability, responsibility, and competence. 

UNIT-III

Encashing AI: AI for Business, AI in the Organization Structure, AI-based data infrastructure, Impact of recommenders on markets Applications in Finance: Fraud Detection and Stock Market Prediction, Market adoption, and barriers. AI & Gaming Industry. AI Strategy and Governance: AI Strategy and Governance Agenda, AI-Driven Business Transformation. Developing a Portfolio of AI Projects, Lowering Barriers to AI Use

UNIT-IV

Green IT and sustainability, ecological footprint of IT, and the issues of lifecycle, sustainability, life cycle assessment and code of conducts; energy measurement and other useful metrics for Green IT, Usage of software tools and hardware to measure and estimate energy consumption; Sustainable software: Ecological design, applying good practices to write energy efficient software; energy footprint of data centers and cloud computing, standards and good practices for energy efficiency in servers,

Textbooks:

1. AI for People and Business, by Alex Castrounis, 2019, O'Reilly Media, Inc. 4
2. Green Computing: Tools and Techniques for Saving Energy, Money, and Resources, Bud E. Smith, Auerbach Publications 
3. 2084: Artificial Intelligence, the Future of Humanity, and the God Question: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, 2020, by John C. Lennox, Zondervan 

Reference Books:

1. The Age of AI: And Our Human Future (B PB) Paperback – Import, 4 August 2022 by Daniel Huttenlocher, III Schmidt, Eric, Henry A Kissinger 
2. Green Internet of Things and Machine Learning, Roshani Raut, Sandeep Kautish, Zdzislaw Polkowski, Anil Kumar, Chuan-Ming Liu, John Wiley & Sons, 10-Jan-2022.