HDR DSC: AI across the statewide curriculum

人工智能（AI）正在深刻地重塑我们生活的社会。人工智能正在改变一个国家保护国土和人口、管理自然资源和基础设施、诊断和治疗疾病、旅行、交流和创作艺术作品等的方式。人工智能有可能为社会和人民带来巨大的利益。然而，未来的人工智能劳动力必须代表种族、民族、性别认同和社会经济背景的多样性，反映整个国家的情况，否则，人工智能支持的未来社会可能会加剧现有的差距，只让少数人受益，而牺牲了太多人的利益。为了应对这一重大挑战，DSC奖旨在培养一支多元化的劳动力队伍，能够在广泛的学科领域公平地整合人工智能。该项目为来自任何学科的学生提供独特的人工智能培训，采用一种方法，将人工智能基础、应用和道德的课堂教育与现实世界的案例研究和研究经验结合起来，跨越本科课程，重点是增强多样性。通过在人工智能相关的教育和研究中招募和保留历史上代表性不足的少数民族，该项目有助于确保在未来人工智能发展和应用的各个层面都包含不同的背景和观点，从而使人工智能社会广泛地惠及每个人。为了实现培养多样化的下一代人工智能劳动力的目标，该项目开发了一个垂直整合的课程，让来自传统计算机科学领域以外的学生可以学习人工智能相关的概念、技能和人工智能应用，以解决自己领域的关键新问题。将设立250多个本科生奖学金，以帮助消除或减少教育的经济障碍。此外，在一所研究型大学和一所历史悠久的黑人学院之间，战略合作伙伴关系为不同的本科生参与人工智能相关的教育和研究提供了灵活的途径。该项目开发了一个核心课程，涵盖人工智能基础知识、伦理和学科特定应用，可以在传统大学学科中部署，并利用远程学习使学生能够在任何地方通过互联网按照自己的时间表参与。该奖项还为世界上一些最先进的计算资源提供了前所未有的访问机会，同时通过为学术、工业和社区研究的新课程开发和本科研究提供财政援助，保持灵活性，以适应快速变化的领域。预计这种将“人工智能贯穿课程”的方法将使所有感兴趣的学生能够在他们选择的学科中公平地使用人工智能。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the society we live in a profound manner. AI is changing how a nation protects its homeland and population, manages its natural resources and infrastructure, diagnoses and treats diseases, travel, communicates and creates artistic works, etc. AI has the potential to generate tremendous benefits for the society and people. However, the future AI workforce must represent the diversity of racial, ethnic, gender-identity and socioeconomic backgrounds reflective of the nation as a whole, otherwise, an AI-enabled future society could exacerbate existing disparities and benefit just a few, at the expense of too many. To address such a grand challenge, this DSC award is to train a diverse workforce capable of integrating AI equitably across a broad range of disciplines. The project provides unique AI training to students from any discipline using an approach that integrates classroom education in AI fundamentals, applications and ethics with real-world case studies and research experiences spanning the undergraduate curriculum with a focus on enhancing diversity. By recruiting and retaining historically underrepresented minorities in AI-related education and research, this project helps ensure that a diversity of backgrounds and opinions are included at all levels of future AI developments and applications, so the AI-enabled society can broadly benefit everyone.To achieve the goal of educating a diverse next-generation AI workforce, this project develops a vertically-integrated curriculum in which students from outside traditional computer-science fields can learn AI-related concepts, skills and AI applications to address critical emerging problems in one’s field. Over 250 undergraduate fellowships will be created to help eliminate or lessen financial barriers to education. Further, between a research university and a historically black college, a strategic partnership provides flexible avenues to engage diverse undergraduates in AI-related education and research. This project develops a core curriculum covering AI fundamentals, ethics and discipline-specific applications that can be deployed across traditional university disciplines and leverages distance-learning to enable students to participate on their own schedule from anywhere with internet. The award also provides unprecedented access to some of the most advanced computational resources in the world while maintaining the flexibility to adapt to a rapidly-changing field by providing financial assistance supporting the development of new courses and undergraduate research in academic, industry and community studies. It is expected that this approach of integrating "AI across the curriculum" will equip all interested students to equitably engage AI in their chosen discipline.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.