AICTE Forms Committee to Integrate AI into Academic Courses

To incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) in all streams of technical education, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has set up a committee to investigate whether AI and applied AI could be adopted legitimately as lateral expansion or extensions of AI and applied AI, not in traditional programmes like BTech in Computer Science.

The committee has been constituted under the leadership of Anand Deshpande who is the managing director of Persistent Systems and has members from various IITs, NITs, and other top institutes of higher education in AI. AICTE is a body at the national level in India responsible for the accreditation and regulation of technical education.

"We are putting one more committee to introduce AI laterally across the programmes, especially Applied AI. The committee is chaired by Anand Deshpande... There are experts from IIT and NIT who also work in AI. We wanted them to advise how we can spread AI laterally, spread the curriculum in all streams," Sitharam said.

As part of this initiative, AICTE has introduced AI in programs like BBA, BCA, and electrical engineering. The Chairman emphasized, "Everybody should understand Artificial Intelligence and data analytics. We have made a new curriculum for BBA and BCA. We have introduced AI in electrical engineering."

The Chairman also said that training faculty had been given as priority to ensure that AI could be effectively taught in institutions. AICTE has made 2025 'Year of Artificial Intelligence' by launching several activities to promote AI in education. As per the reports, the initiative is ambitious to reach out to 14,000 colleges and reach out to 40 million students. The initiative components are awareness campaigns on AI, faculty development, and detection with the leading tech companies.